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When the department invited Paulin to give the annual speech last winter, he had not yet told Egypt’s Al-Ahram Weekly newspaper that Brooklyn-born Jews who have settled in the West Bank “should be shot dead.” “I think they are Nazis, racists,” he said, “I feel nothing but hatred for them...
...interview with Al-Ahram Weekly last April, the English-language edition of a leading Cairo newspaper, Paulin questioned Israel’s right to exist, and called the Israeli state “a historical obscenity.” The newspaper praised him as a voice of international support of the Palestinian cause...
Particularly offensive were his remarks about Brooklyn-born Jews who move to Israeli settlements in disputed territories. “They should be shot,” he told Al-Ahram. “I think they are Nazis, racists. I have nothing but hatred for them...
...after the destruction of the World Trade Center. With such a display of power, whether bin Laden is alive or not is beside the point. "For the militant groups in the Islamic world, it is the ideology that counts, not a specific leader," says Hala Mustafa of the Al Ahram Center for Political and Strategic Studies in Cairo. "The roots of fanaticism will still be there...
...Jerusalem Post carried a commentary by leftwing parliamentarian Naomi Chazan on a recent Israeli-Palestinian sit-down in South Africa, in which both sides apprised themselves of the lessons of that country's near-miraculous negotiated peaceful transition away from minority rule. And in Egypt's official Al Ahram, commentator Hani Shukrallah offers a withering critique of an intifada hijacked by suicide bombers. "The Biblical Samson strikes a ridiculous, rather than heroic, figure," he writes. "Not to mention that our attempts to bring down the temple over the heads of our enemies as well as our own invariably miss...