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An extract from Omar El Akkad’s new book argues that Gaza put to bed the fantasy of the USA as freedom fighter‘I’m sitting on the side that’s launching bombs’: author Omar El Akkad on the hypocrisy of the westAmong my hazier memories of early adolescence in Qatar is a screening, at a friend’s home, of an obviously pirated Betamax copy of Red Dawn. My friend’s father – most everyone’s father or mother or uncle, whoever – would, while on business trips overseas, visit the occasional video store or flea market and return with whatever films or books or albums they happened to find.

The Guardian     Feb 24, 2025