http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-middle_east_politics/article_1238.jsp Comments for "Eighteen hours in Ben Gurion airport, Omar Al-Qattan " en http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-middle_east_politics/article_1238.jsp The detention and deportation by Israeli authorities of a British filmmaker of Palestinian origin is a lesson not just in the vicious political realities of the Middle East, but in a failure of courage by the British government.&nbsp;<a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-middle_east_politics/article_1238.jsp" class="read-more" title="Read the rest of this posting.">Read the rest of this post...</a><p><a href="http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-middle_east_politics/article_1238.jsp">read more</a></p> http://www.opendemocracy.net/conflict-middle_east_politics/article_1238.jsp#comment middle east conflicts Omar al-Qattan Original Copyright the middle east Fri, 23 May 2003 00:00:00 +0100 1238 at http://www.opendemocracy.net