Word: beirutization
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Arafat: Do you think this is the first time I am facing trouble? [Israeli General Ariel] Sharon was trying to kill me during the siege of Beirut. Did you forget that? Then there was the air raid against my residence in Tunisia. And the crash of my airplane in the desert. I am a strong leader. Yet nobody can escape his destiny. I am a strong believer...
...reaction to Rabin's murder in some parts of the Arab world was not hopeful. Mohammed Zahhar, a leader of the terrorist organization Hamas, told the Associated Press, "He practiced all forms of violence against us. I'm joyful because he was punished." And in Beirut the Hizballah television station showed film of locals celebrating "the death of the Zionist criminal Rabin" as a news anchor told viewers, "The gunfire you hear is in celebration, but please keep your bullets for the Israeli oppressors" in southern Lebanon. When the station, Al Manar (The Lighthouse), showed footage of an Israeli...
Vanessa comes from the Virgin Islands, where she collected Leonard Cohen records. Peter grew up in Beirut listening to the Voice of America, where he first heard Coltrane. Inspired by these influences, the pair have avoided the usual pitfalls and may have saved jazz-pop from its near death experience...
...holds only because I-FOR is there? Will it still depart? If so, at what point and at what cost? Ignoring such questions, which are essential to defining a mission, can make for confused soldiers. It can also make for dead ones, as demonstrated by deployments in Vietnam and Beirut, where these problems were never adequately addressed...
Still, I think wistfully, America has made a career of transcending itself, of leaving its worse selves behind. If it had not, the U.S. would have devolved into a sort of continental Beirut long ago. The worse self that should now be left behind may be the oldest residual American self--the racial-tribal. The continuation of the American idea depends upon the nation's transcending that. All Americans will arrive at civilization together, or they will not arrive...