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Pilger on Palestine

category international | rights, freedoms and repression | other press author Monday January 29, 2007 16:35author by pat - IPSC

A genocide is engulfing the people of Gaza while a silence engulfs its bystanders. "Some 1.4 million people, mostly children, are piled up in one of the most densely populated regions of the world, with no freedom of movement, no place to run and no space to hide," wrote the senior UN relief official, Jan Egeland, and Jan Eliasson, then Swedish foreign minister, in Le Figaro. They described people "living in a cage", cut off by land, sea and air, with no reliable power and little water and tortured by hunger and disease and incessant attacks by Israeli troops and planes.

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http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2007/05/371093.html

'The Imposition of great Power on Powerless People'

also for reading :-

'Freedom Next Time' John Pilger ( its probably online in a google directory, excerpts and essays
too)

http://www.indymedia.ie/article/80705

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