Word: beirutization
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...tragedies in my family,” says Cable, a Palestinian who has lived in the West Bank, Beirut, Lebanon and Saudi Arabia. “But the thing that shook me hard is the fact that it was somebody kind, somebody next door. I thought that I come to Cambridge, I’m safe. And then I say, ‘Oh my God, in a little community like Cambridge, you can lose your neighbors...
What I do know is that the world is a pitiless and dangerous place. In 20 years of observing portions of it, I have seen, or seen the aftermath of, children blown apart by car bombs in Beirut; kindergartners slaughtered in a schoolroom in Israel; hunted young men dying of starvation in Sudan; other young men and women hacked to death with machetes in Rwanda, their bodies hoisted like logs over waterfalls and carried into muddy rivers; still others decapitated in Cambodia, with kids forced to do the decapitating...
...cases being investigated against the Israeli prime minister concern the 1982 massacre of some 2,000 Palestinian refugees in the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut by Lebanese militiamen allied with Israel. An Israeli government inquiry the following year had found Sharon "indirectly responsible" for the massacre. The current investigation is being conducted under terms of a 1993 Belgian law which allows for war crimes charges to be heard in Belgian courts no matter where the alleged offenses occurred or the nationality of either the complainants or the accused. Mr. Sharon, for his part, sees the maneuver as simply another...
...York. The same jury in March convicted four others of plotting the Tanzania bombing and the deadlier attack on the U.S. embassy in Kenya that resulted in 224 fatalities. DIED. MAXIMUS V HAKIM, 93, 20th patriarch of the breakaway Greek Catholic Church of Antioch, Alexandria and Jerusalem; in Beirut. Greek Catholics split from the East Orthodox Church in 1724 to accept the authority of the Pope. Maximus V led 600,000 followers, mainly in Syria, Egypt and Lebanon. He advocated closer relations with the East Orthodox Church, straining ties with Rome. DIED. FRED NEIL, 64, folk-songwriter who penned...
...center of the conduct of foreign affairs, and Kissinger and others believe it could have a destabilizing effect. For example, there are efforts currently underway in Belgian courts to indict Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon over the 1982 massacre of Palestinian refugees at the Sabra and Shatila camps in Beirut - for which a 1983 Israeli government inquiry found Sharon "indirectly responsible." The Israelis may dismiss this as a propaganda exercise, but if the rules of immunity and cross-border prosecution begin to change, such endeavors could complicate efforts to mediate conflicts, critics argue...