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The US: Long live Allawi. Death to Iraqis

(Jalal Al-Rifa'i, Ad Dustour, 9/15/04).

US and US-backed Arab rulers tightening control over lives of Arabs, under the pretext of "War on Terror"

(Nihad Buqa'i, Al-Fajr, Al-Jadeed, 9/15/04).

Palestinian voting registration centers receive a lot of applications

- "Register me, I'm an Arab"

From a famous and a long poem for the Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, which inspired millions of Palestinians to resist the Israeli occupation and the Zionist plans to evict them from their land. At the beginning of the poem, Darwish addresses his Zionist harasser-jailer saying:

And the number of my ID card is 50,000

And my children are 8, and the 9th is on his/her way

We'll remain here on your chests like a wall ...

(Baha Boukhari, Al-Ayyam, 9/15/04).