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Losing Focus: Peace and Justice Movement in Britain at Crossroad
Posted March 8th, 2007 by cdfierro
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By Ramzy Baroud
Growing up in a Palestinian refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, it was a very
familiar encounter: Israeli soldiers storming our house accompanied by
shouts of terror and a barrage of insults. Such recollections make me
shudder to this day.
Just the mere summoning of those memories of my childhood in the Nuseirat
refugee camp haunting me not only in childhood but in my adulthood as well,
shall most likely accompany me for the rest of my life - almost
instantaneously forcing me to relive my mother’s agonizing cries, my