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brainshrub Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Jan-04-06 02:45 PM
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A Glossary of Dispossession
A Glossary of Dispossession

By: Paul de Rooij

Words are very important. Words frame issues, palliate, mollify, exculpate or even hide sordid acts. Words like "disengagement", "viable state", "barrier or fence", etc., alter our understanding of the Palestinian condition under the unrelenting ethnic cleansing that has been the norm during the past decades. Invariably western media and its coterie of "analysts" use propaganda-tainted words when referring to Israeli actions and the Palestinian condition. The list below analyses a few of the prevalent words that hide or exculpate the dispossession of millions.
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