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he entire Middle East. "We have far more freedoms," one peddler hawking fruit in the same square lamented, "but far fewer jobs." Another noted that Mohamed Bouazizi, the vendor who set himself on fire, did so not to vote in a democratic election but because harassment by local officials had cost him his livelih
allegations that militants who killed 16 of its soldiers on August 5th had passed through the tunnels. Israel and Hamas's Palestinian rivals in the West Bank egged it on. "800 millionaires and 1,600 near-millionaires control the tunnels at the expense of both Egyptian and Palestinian national interests,"
eal from the king to withhold the U.S. veto at the United Nations from a resolution condemning continued Israeli settlement building in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Saudis believe that solving the issue of Palestinian statehood will deny Iran a key pillar in its regional expansionist strategy—and thus bring
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023464 →ered by the self- immolation of an overeducated 26-year-old Tunisian vegetable seller whose cart was repeatedly confiscated by the authorities. After Mohamed Bouazizi was slapped by a policewoman when he tried to complain, he reached the end of his tether. Bouazizi’s public suicide turned into a social movement bec
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023482 →but of the nature of a Palestinian state under current circumstances. The Palestinians are split into two major factions. The first, Fatah, dominates the West Bank. Fatah derives its ideology from the older, secular Pan-Arab movement. Historically, Fatah saw the Palestinians as a state within the Arab nation. Th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031918 →a sizeable advantage. This is not naïve or farfetched. After all, it was the plight of Tunisian vendor HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031929 --- PAGE BREAK --- 18 Mohamed Bouazizi and the symbolism of his fate that sparked all the revolutions across the Middle East. The images of the rebels in Libya liberating their country (as
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031930 →Entities connected to both Mohamed Bouazizi and West Bank

Barack Obama
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
PERSON
Jerusalem
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United States
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Hosni Mubarak
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Marc Rich
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Fatah
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Cairo
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Damascus
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Middle East
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Saddam Hussein
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Hillary Clinton
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Tunisia
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Ronald Reagan
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