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Articles marked Sara RoySara Roy, the author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-development, is a senior research scholar at the Centre for Middle Eastern Studies at Harvard. She wrote about the Israeli withdrawl from Gaza in the summer issue of the Journal of Palestine Studies. From the London Review dated 3 November 2005‘A Dubai on the Mediterranean’Last April President Bush said that Israel’s withdrawal from Gaza would allow the establishment of ‘a democratic state in the Gaza’ and open the door for democracy in the Middle East. The columnist Thomas Friedman was more explicit, arguing that ‘the issue for Palestinians is no longer about how they resist the Israeli occupation in Gaza, but whether they build a decent mini-state there – a Dubai on the Mediterranean. Because if they do, it will fundamentally reshape the Israeli debate about whether the Palestinians can be handed most of the West Bank.’ [ read more . . . ] Selected bibliographySearch the web for Sara Roy: Google · Yahoo! · AltaVista · Wikipedia In the LRB archive‘A Dubai on the Mediterranean’ · 3 November 2005 Short Cuts: Sara Roy on the silencing of US academics · 1 April 2004 |
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