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If Gaza falls...

SARA ROY

London Review of Books v31 n1 (1 January 2009)

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'A Dubai on the Mediterranean'

SARA ROY

London Review of Books, Vol. 27 No. 21, 3 November 2005

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

How to stop Hamas: First, end the occupation

SARA ROY

The Daily Star, 20 June 2003

The "road map" that President George W. Bush is committed to will not end the cycle of violence between Palestinians and Israelis. Like the Oslo process before it, the road map will fail for one fundamental reason: the continuation of Israel's ongoing and brutal occupation of the Palestinian people.

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Living with the Holocaust

SARA ROY

Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol XXXII, No. 1, Autumn 2002, Issue 125

Harvard University professor Sara Roy, author of The Gaza Strip: The Political Economy of De-Development, among other works, is a senior research scholar at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University. This essay was given as the Second Annual Holocaust Remembrance Lecture at the Center for American and Jewish Studies and the George W. Truett Seminary, Baylor University, on 8 April 2002.

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