Middle East Research and Information Project

Critical Coverage of the Middle East Since 1971

Dennis Sammut

Dennis Sammut is currently doing research at the London School of Economics and Politics. He was a member of parliament for the Maltese Labor Party and has worked in the party’s international relations bureau.

MER Article

Letting the Colonel In from the Cold

On the last day of May 1993, some 200 Libyan pilgrims alighted from buses that had just crossed from Egypt into the Israeli-occupied Gaza. Strip on the way to Jerusalem. None of the rhetoric in the statement the pilgrims issued at the end of their stay, duly broadcast by the Libyan “Voice of the Gre

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