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Beat the Devil
Cockburn, Alexander | September 27, 1986 issue

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This article presents information related to economic, social and political issues. On August 12, Israeli Interior Ministry closed "al-mithaq," a Palestinian Arabic-language daily published in Jerusalem, on the grounds that it was financed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. On August 12 the Israeli Interior Ministry closed "al-mithaq," a Palestinian Arabic-language daily published in Jerusalem, on the ground that it was financed by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine. The Israelis shut down the weekly "al-Ahd" for the same reason. The author wonders how the F.M. reacts to the reports of chaos on the exchanges when he watches the evening news-assuming that he does watch it. At one level, far below the macadamed threshold of his consciousness, they must be disturbing to him, stimulating far from pleasant memories of his drunken father following the collapse of capitalism and his own fortunes in the late 1920's and early 1930's.

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ISRAEL -- Politics & government; ETHNOLOGY -- Israel; CAPITALISM; POLITICS, Practical; POLITICAL parties; ISRAEL
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