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Friedman explains what on the surface seems inexplicable, such as why Syrian President Hafez Assad would destroy an entire city--Hama--in his country. He knows and understands how the shackles of tradition and history have shaped the policies of leaders involved in nation-building in the Middle East...
...framework of Friedman's analysis of the Middle East is Assad's destruction of Hama, which the author feels characterize the three conflicting elements that have caused conflict in the Middle East: tribe-like loyalty, authoritarianism and modern nation-state building...
...example, and has opened its construction market to foreign bidders. Japan imported 48% more U.S.-made computers and office equipment in 1988 than in the previous year, and 55% more semiconductors and telecommunications equipment. "A massive structural change has taken place in the Japanese economy," says economist Noriko Hama of the Mitsubishi Research Institute. "We are much more import-oriented than we were a couple of years...
...interview with Assad did not include questions about Syria's abuse of human rights or the massacre at Hama, where Assad ordered thousands of Syrians killed. Nor was he asked about Syria's Jews, who cannot leave the country...
...more heavyhanded. After a bodyguard reportedly tried to kill Assad with a hand grenade in June 1980 (the President's life was saved when another guard threw himself on the explosive), some 250 to 300 political prisoners were massacred at Tadmur prison. In February 1982, when militants rebelled in Hama, the country's fifth-largest city, an edgy Assad responded by besieging the city of 200,000 for three weeks and killing at least 10,000 residents...