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...empty on the eve of Zionist colonization, and that Palestinians are in fact foreigners who surreptitiously entered Palestine after the Zionists “made the desert bloom.” The book is now widely recognized as a fraud. Baruch Kimmerling (of the Hebrew University) and Joel S. Migdal, in their authoritative study, Palestinians: The Making of a People, published by Harvard University Press, observe that Peters’s book is “based on materials out of context, and on distorted evidence,” and, citing my own conclusion that the book...
...found herself in a convoy of cars with Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay, headed for a rendezvous in Tikrit, Saddam's hometown, with the Iraqi dictator. The 18-year-old woman, who spoke to TIME on condition of anonymity, was a live-in employee of Farhan Ibrahim Migdal al-Dolaymi, who resided on the Republican Palace grounds near Uday. This is what she says she witnessed of Saddam's flight from the Americans...
...April 3, Qusay arrived at Migdal's house with a group of relatives. The maid overheard them planning to travel in a convoy of old, nondescript cars to a rural area outside Tikrit. She tried to get out of making the trip but was told she knew too much. Two days later, the entourage drove north in 65 cars, staggered in sets of two or three so they would not be conspicuous. Among the passengers was Abid Hamid Mahmud al-Tikriti, a cousin and trusted aide of Saddam's, who was arrested in Tikrit by U.S. forces last week...
That was the last time the maid saw Saddam. The next day Migdal took her back to the farmhouse in Tikrit to hole up with his wife, three daughters and several bodyguards. On April 8, a day after American forces bombed a site in Baghdad hoping to kill Saddam, the Iraqi leader called the farmhouse. He was looking for guards to help launch surface-to-surface missiles. Later that day, Migdal returned from an outing and began sobbing. "Baghdad is falling!" he cried out. "The army is deserting." U.S. forces seized the capital on April 9 as Saddam statues toppled...
...tradition of the annual Walk for Hunger, sponsors pledged money to the walkers, who raised approximately 1,500 dollars, according to Rachel R. Schiff '96 of Eliot House, who coordinated the walk with Migdal...