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...Hussein is a man on a tightrope, and the tightrope is fraying. For his Palestinians he proclaims: "We will regain what was lost of our fatherland, with God's help." Privately he admits that Israel is probably there to stay. "The Arabs were wrong to think that the Jews were like the American Indians and could nev er regain their lost lands," he says. His suggested solution: "First, the Jews must recognize Arab rights, and allow the refugees to return or give them compensation. Second, they must rectify the unrealistic border. It splits villages and makes people live...
...from his car and started to carry him off. Arriving at the ancient hill town of Nablus, where Jesus once talked by the well with the adulterous woman of Samaria, the King said what the audience had come to hear: "We shall regain what was lost of our fatherland, with God's help...
Former General Curt-Ulrich von Gerstorff rose to protest. Individuals cannot judge the justice of war, he said; "the individual can only know that every war-even the unjust war-is a threat to his fatherland. Do you expect the fire brigade to stop fighting the fire because the mayor of the town lit the fire himself? There is only one thing we can do: take care that the government is composed of peace-loving...
...British run torture centers in Cyprus where they beat their prisoners, inject them with truth serums, extract their teeth and fingernails," cried Athens' Voice of the Fatherland radio, beamed to turbulent Cyprus. U.S. Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, said one newspaper, is "the accomplice of the most shameful international crime of our age." When a policeman was killed trying to keep order on the island, Athens beamed back its own version: "Agents of the foreign dynasty [Britain] provoked the riots and killed the policeman in order to provoke further rioting...
...guide teachers in sending their pupils off as farm laborers with the "correct" attitude. "It does not matter," said the directive, "whether you leave school now and go to work, or stay in school a while longer and work afterwards. What counts is what you are doing for the fatherland." In short: get to work. The People's Daily dutifully chimed in with a call for educating "students' parents in the glory of labor." Radio Peking added soothingly: "Many comrades in the rank and file of our revolutionary columns had no prior school education...