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...central to the Zionist ideology that discussion of such a topic remains marginalized in Israel today. To this day, many of the Israelis and Jews around the world have failed to come to terms with their past cruelty. They refuse to recognize the harm and dispossession the Israelis inflicted, and continue to inflict, upon the Palestinians. The existence of any native population in Palestine was problematic to the Zionist myth of "a land without a people for a people without a land." Twenty years after the creation of Israel, Golda Meir, a Prime Minister of Israel, stated: "There...

Author: By Ramy Tadros, | Title: Israel's 'Independence' Day | 5/3/1995 | See Source »

...orientation, but they and their objectives are political. Some analysts designate even relatively violent Islamic groups "mainstream'' terrorists. The Trade Center bombers are in a different category. They do not have clearly visible political motives and seem to have come together rather casually, outside a formal organization, only to inflict punishment on Americans, the infidel enemies of their religion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRICE OF FANATICISM | 4/3/1995 | See Source »

...late perhaps, White House advisers decided to try to make the charged politics of abortion work for them. Though some concede they would have preferred to save a defining battle over abortion for the 1996 presidential campaign, the President's inner circle hopes at least to inflict pain on the Republicans by forcing the debate now. ``We stumbled into the fight, but now that we're in it, we see that it's a fight we want to have,'' says an aide. ``[It] will speak volumes about who controls the Republican Party.'' He adds...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SURGICAL STRIKE | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...delayed in reacting to the calamity. I am disgusted with Gaddafi, the Libyan leader, who was heartless and malevolent in cursing the more than 5,000 people who were killed in the quake, saying, ``This is certainly a divine punishment. We were expecting it, and we asked God to inflict it on Japan, which manipulated all its economic resources for the use of Satan.'' Hiromi Okamura Kasukabe Saitama, Japan The kobe earthquake left my daughter and her family homeless; they had to be evacuated from the city. I was determined to get to them even if I had to walk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Feb. 20, 1995 | 2/20/1995 | See Source »

...five years even if taxes are cut and defense spending is increased, Dole has said diplomatically, ``It would be difficult.'' In recent weeks, Dole has downplayed attempts to repeal the ban on assault weapons, and he appears genuinely repelled by the pain that the contract's welfare reforms could inflict...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYES ON THE PRIZE | 2/13/1995 | See Source »

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