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...celebrated a swift, efficient victory in the Persian Gulf, a tour of hospitals inside Iraq tells the story of a different war. This one is still being fought, against epidemic disease and starvation, the conflict's sorry legacies. Its principal victims are children. The tour, sponsored by the Arab-American Medical Association for doctors of Iraqi extraction, afforded unprecedented access to the country's ravaged medical system and desperate doctors and patients. But even on the street, the hunger and suffering were palpable. "I was shocked by the look on people's faces," Cleveland physician Nadia al-Kaisi told TIME...
...Arab-American community, not surprisingly, mirrors the Middle East, with opinions about the war breaking along the battle lines: those with roots in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia largely support the effort, while those with ties to Iraq, Jordan and Syria are most adamantly opposed to the war. There are few apologists for Saddam Hussein. "This guy has been giving me nightmares for 12 years," says an Iraqi now living in New York City whose father was imprisoned and fatally poisoned by Saddam's security forces. "There is not a single Iraqi who likes Saddam." But at the same time, many...
...months since Iraqi tanks rumbled into Kuwait, stores and restaurants owned by Arab Americans in Los Angeles and Detroit have been set afire. Many Arab-American leaders are receiving regular death threats. At the home of a Lebanese family in Dearborn, vandals burned an Iraqi flag on the front lawn. On Jan. 19 in Blissfield, Mich., 60 townspeople helped scrub clean the walls of a Dairy Queen, owned by a Palestinian American, on which vandals had sprayed U.S.A. NO 1. Last week the Dairy Queen was burned to the ground...
...attacks are one measure of widespread ignorance about the Arab-American community. Few are aware, for example, of the degree to which Arab-Americans have flourished in this country, rising to the ranks of White House chief of staff and Senate majority leader: both John Sununu and George Mitchell are of Arab descent, as are Paula Abdul, Ralph Nader and Danny Thomas. Arab Americans are better educated than the U.S population as a whole, more likely to hold management or professional positions, and wealthier: the average household income of $22,973 is above the U.S. average...
Authorities continued to express concern about possible terrorist attacks within U.S. borders. The New England office of the Anti-Defamation League yesterday issued a statement asking Jewish and Arab-American groups to take greater security precautions, and police increased security at the State House and other state buildings in Massachusetts...