Word: arabism
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Secondly, it has been said in an unending chorus, not only in Palestinian circles but throughout the Arab world, that Netanyahu doesn't want peace. And if it's repeated often enough, it assumes the aura of self-evident truth. It is false...
What happened? The Western media were simply taken in by a lie--an easily provable lie--put out by the P.L.O. and the Arab League. At Arafat's urging, the League issued within 48 hours of the tunnel's opening a declaration calling the tunnel "part of an Israeli Zionist plot to destroy the Aqsa mosque [and] set up the Temple of Solomon...
...Arab claim about the tunnel was, in fact, a big lie: modern propaganda with medieval resonance. In medieval times, massacres against Jews were often carried out as vengeance for some alleged Jewish desecration of Christianity. How would NPR have covered the blood-libel-inspired massacre of the Jews of Munich in 1286? "Leaders of the massacre claim that the Jews had killed Christian boys and used their blood for religious rituals"? For balance, I suppose, NPR would have added, "The Jews deny this...
...during the "tunnel" riots of two weeks ago, there were incidents of murder and sacrilege. One occurred in Nablus, an Arab town under P.L.O. control. There is in Nablus a Jewish religious site, Joseph's Tomb. Under the P.L.O.-Israeli peace accords, it remained a tiny enclave peopled by devout Jews and, for protection, a few Israeli soldiers. On Sept. 26, it was attacked by a Palestinian mob throwing firebombs. Six Israelis were killed. Many prayer books were burned...
Nothing illustrates the callous U.S. disregard of fellow humans' dignity and values more than the new aggression against Iraq. The U.S. had no justification under any of the several U.N. resolutions. It is significant that America's staunch Arab allies like Saudi Arabia and Kuwait did not permit their territory to be used for unleashing missile attacks on Iraq. It is amazing that the world community does not give a thought to the plight of the civilian Iraqi population. VARGHESE POOVAKKATTU Herne, Germany...