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...Gaza. It was also about more personal issues: as Israel drifts away from its socialist origins of collective farms and all-embracing welfare towards bustling capitalism, it has ignored the poorer folks left behind. That, say analysts, explains the voters? tilt to parties such as Labor, led by Moroccan-born Amir Peretz, which focused its campaign on social inequalities, and the parties such as Shas and Beiteinu that championed the neglected but sizeable Sephardic and Russian communities. The Pensioners Party, whose sole platform was to improve benefits for elderly Israelis, was the surprise of the elections, garnering eight seats...
Moussaoui, 37, a French Moroccan who was detained about a month before the 9/11 attacks, has pleaded guilty to conspiring with al-Qaeda to hijack planes, but denies direct involvement in the 9/11 plot, claiming that he was preparing for a future attack instead. If he is not executed, he faces life imprisonment. Prosecutors were counting on the witnesses barred by Brinkema to explain to jurors how airport security could have been increased had Moussaoui come clean with FBI agents who interrogated him before 9/11...
Since the beginning of March, several surprising developments have brought Zacarias Moussaoui’s trial to the covers of major dailies around the world. Moussaoui, a French citizen of Moroccan descent, is in the penalty phase of his federal trial, having already plead guilty to charges of conspiracy to commit terrorist acts. The trial’s latest revelation was that Carla J. Martin, a lawyer for the Transportation Security Administration, had coached several aviation officials who were scheduled to testify for the prosecution. In light of these facts, District Judge Leonie Brinkema last Tuesday decided to exclude...
...their perusal, and endure plagues of rats, snakes, locusts, mosquitoes, bees and - as part of a mysterious campaign to force him out - the occasional dead animal dangling from a fruit tree in his garden. And that stuff was easy. The real problems involved jinns, the spirits that many Moroccans accept as hazards of daily life. Shah's new home - a sprawling, decrepit, Arabian Nights complex in Casablanca once owned by a real caliph - was crawling with them. His ever-expanding workforce was terrified by the spectral invaders, blaming them for every accident, including those dead animals. "They were a back...
Mahmud, 24, and I met at a Moroccan falafel place near Dupont Circle on a surprisingly sunny December afternoon. I guarantee that even if you looked carefully around the D.C. area, you would find very few “couples” like us—a Palestinian from Nablus and an Israeli from Herzliya, simply chatting for more than two hours, catching up on life. A week prior to our meeting, Mahmud had returned from a visit to Nablus, his hometown, after spending the past four years living rather comfortably in the United States. The story I heard that...