Word: ethnics
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Dershowitz also claims that the CofCC is a "racist and anti-Semitic organization." The truth is that the CofCC is neither. The Council does indeed defend white European Americans, their civilization, faith and form of government, but it does not support the oppression or exploitation of any racial, ethnic or religious group...
Israel will spend the next five months fighting about peace, but the fault lines in the Jewish state's election are more about ethnic loyalty than policy. Despite a flurry of "centrist" bids, the May 17 election announced late Monday remains a contest between the traditional foes, Likud and Labor. "People choose between those parties on the basis of cultural affiliation rather than peace plans," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "If they're prosperous middle class Ashkenazis (Jews of European origin) they tend to vote Labor; and if they're from the ranks of the aggrieved, disadvantaged Jews...
...Richard Holbrooke succeeded in negotiating a deal to halt ethnic bloodshed here...
...good education: Moses, they wrote, absorbed all Egypt's learning, both scientific and occult, and spoke 70 languages. More recent commentators and The Prince of Egypt have focused on questions of assimilation and dual identity. But Exodus cuts directly from the infancy story to Moses' fateful moment of outraged ethnic solidarity and justifiable homicide. Pursued by Pharaoh, Moses flees to the land of Midian. There he meets Zipporah, the daughter of the chieftain Jethro (also called Reuel and Hobab), as she draws water from a well. Soon he takes her as his wife, and they have two sons. Nahum Sarna...
Moses (voiced by Val Kilmer) is a cunning lad, forever getting his pal Rameses (Ralph Fiennes) in trouble with dad Seti, the Pharaoh. At first Moses seems only incidentally vexed that his fellow Hebrews have been enslaved to help build the pyramids. But he gradually achieves an ethnic identity and flexes some vengeful muscle, thanks to a divine ally--a force as implacable as Clint Eastwood in a really dark mood--who, when bid, will kill each Egyptian firstborn male...