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READ ONLINE AT: http:\/\/bit.ly\/the-wandering-europeans<\/a><\/p>\n Le Monde diplomatique – English edition<\/p>\n The wandering Europeans<\/span><\/p>\n Exclusive<\/p>\n 4 June, by Sam Bahour<\/p>\n Next to U.S. support for Israel, the main reason why the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues is that the Europeans have reduced themselves to a subservient role in the Middle East Peace Process: one in which they underwrite the cost of Israel’s occupation by artificially propping up the Palestinian Authority, which created from the Oslo Peace Accords but has no sovereign authority whatever.<\/p>\n READ FULL ARTICLE ONLINE AT: http:\/\/bit.ly\/the-wandering-europeans<\/a><\/p>\n or in Arabic at Al-Quds Newspaper: \u0627\u0644\u0623\u0648\u0631\u0648\u0628\u064a\u0648\u0646 \u0627\u0644\u062a\u0627\u0626\u0647\u0648\u0646<\/a> (http:\/\/www.alquds.com\/news\/article\/view\/id\/442243<\/a>)<\/p>\n ———————————————————————–<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ePalestine Blog:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/www.epalestine.com<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n ———————————————————————–<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n Everything about this list:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n http:\/\/lists.riseup.net\/www\/info\/epalestine<\/u><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n To unsubscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n epalestine-unsubscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n <\/span><\/p>\n To subscribe, send mail to:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n epalestine-subscribe@lists.riseup.net<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" READ ONLINE AT: http:\/\/bit.ly\/the-wandering-europeans Le Monde diplomatique – English edition The wandering Europeans Exclusive 4 June, by Sam Bahour Next to U.S. support for Israel, the main reason why the military occupation of the West Bank and Gaza Strip continues is that the Europeans have reduced themselves to a subservient role in the Middle East […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","iawp_total_views":3,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[942],"tags":[422,116,804,805,806,40,421,544,165],"ppma_author":[936],"class_list":["post-4016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sams-writings","tag-barack-obama","tag-eu","tag-european-council-on-foreign-relations","tag-european-eminent-persons-group","tag-europeans","tag-israeli-occupation","tag-john-kerry","tag-oslo-peace-process","tag-palestinian-authority"],"authors":[{"term_id":936,"user_id":4,"is_guest":0,"slug":"sambahour","display_name":"Sam Bahour","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bca109c333bf6d8ae807746dd512adde46265d37c923f6cd0fc4aab437f8e9aa?s=96&d=mm&r=g","author_category":"1","first_name":"Sam","last_name":"Bahour","user_url":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour","job_title":"","description":"Sam Bahour (\u0633\u0627\u0645 \u0628\u062d\u0648\u0631) resides in Al-Bireh\/Ramallah, Palestine. He does business consulting as Applied Information Management<\/a> (AIM), specializing in business development with a niche focus on the information technology sector and start-ups.\r\n\r\nBahour was instrumental in the establishment of two publicly traded firms: the Palestine Telecommunications Company (PALTEL) and the Arab Palestinian Shopping Centers (APSC). He is Co-founder & Emeritus Member of Americans for a Vibrant Palestinian Economy<\/a> (A4VPE) and until recently served as an independent Director at the Arab Islamic Bank P.L.C. and a board member at Just Vision<\/a>.\r\n\r\nHe writes frequently on Palestinian affairs and has been widely published in leading outlets. He is co-editor of HOMELAND: Oral History of Palestine and Palestinians<\/a><\/em> (Olive Branch Press, 1993), tweets at @SamBahour<\/a>, and blogs at epalestine.ps.<\/a>"}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9590,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4016\/revisions\/9590"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4016"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/epalestine.ps\/sambahour\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=4016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}