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Ever since a French newsman caught the killing of 12-year-old Palestinian Mohammed al-Durrah on tape, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict has found a new venue—the global media. The picture of the terrified boy crouching against his father amidst a spray of bullets made the covers of newspapers around the world. The world seemed ready to entertain the notion that the oppression of the Palestinians had reached an intolerable level. But meanwhile, the American press took steps that ensured that the truth about Palestine would remain hidden from the American people...
They gathered to demonstrate their unity to the world. Yet in the breaks between their formal sessions of solidarity posing at Beirut's Bristol Hotel last week, the disparate members of the Iraqi opposition could not resist heaping scorn on one another. Someone noted that before Youssef al-Durrah joined the Democratic Movement, he served as Saddam Hussein's press director. A rival pointed out that Hassan Alawi of the Arab Independents once worked as Saddam's speechwriter. And that communist, Naziha Doulaimi? Well, a critic readily volunteered, she had once been a full member of Saddam's Cabinet...
...democracy irrelevant. "It is the motivated minority that counts," said he, "and the Islamic movement is the most motivated." Even democracy's true believers doubted its feasibility in Iraq. "Participation in political parties requires a political maturity that is lacking in Iraq," said the Democratic Movement's al-Durrah...
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