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...Orthodox Church in Cairo exercised its control over Ethiopia and the Blue Nile by refusing to send a bishop to anoint an Ethiopian King. In the 20th century, Egypt signed a treaty with Britain that essentially gave Cairo full control over the Nile's waters. Much to its neighbors' disgust, Egypt held them to the pact even after they gained independence from Britain. As recently as the 1970s, Egyptian President Anwar Sadat warned that "any action that would endanger the waters of the Blue Nile will be faced with a firm reaction on the part of Egypt, even if that...
...have none of it, of course. It would repel me; disgust me. If I understand the logic of it correctly, Palestinian families get that kind of payment as compensation for their contribution to the cause. My only cause right now is keeping my son alive, and hoping the injustice of his execution can be avoided. Someone paying money for his death would be at once desecrating and celebrating my defeat in that cause...
...little-known fact about Harvard students is that we hate each other almost as much as the rest of the world hates us—maybe more. When one of us succeeds, the rest of us go berserk. Public congratulations barely conceal private disgust, which turns out to be an even poorer mask for deep, soul-burning jealousy and crippling self-doubt. The distance from “How could she...” to “Why didn’t I...” to “Undeserving slut” is, unfortunately, short and easily...
Some nevertheless argue that America must cut off all aid to any organization that interacts with the Palestinian government (however indirectly) in order to convey the depth of America’s disapproval of Hamas. But the U.S. has made its disgust with Hamas abundantly clear in a variety of other ways, including refusing to engage it diplomatically. Maintaining aid to moderate, reformist Palestinian NGOs will hardly undercut that message; it will in fact reinforce...
...expedited several programs (and suppressed its own publicity requirements) in order to allow Fatah to take credit for last-minute municipal improvements. To channel money to one side in a democratic election, and then to cut off funding when the other side wins—whether motivated by genuine disgust, or by the desire to precipitate the Hamas government’s collapse and reverse the election’s outcome—sends a bad message about America’s commitment to the democratic process...