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May 5, 2004       Share:    

Source: http://nationalreview.com/comment/friedman200405030855.asp

Through Sharansky's Eyes - What Freedom Means

(National Review) - Rachel Zabarkes Friedman - Former Soviet dissident and political prisoner Natan Sharansky, currently minister for Jerusalem and Diaspora Affairs, is working on a book about the need to promote liberal democracy in the Middle East. Sharansky's opinions about contemporary Arab dictatorships are rooted deeply in his dissident experience. He believes that all people want freedom, understood first and foremost as the ability to express one's opinions without fear. This freedom is the essence of democracy, he says, and if given the choice, all people will choose it.

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