Word: insult
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...toward its northern neighbor. The Begin government, which helped train Bashir Gemayel's militia, was badgering the late President-elect only a few weeks ago for important concessions, including a peace treaty with Israel. After one meeting in which Begin repeatedly addressed Bashir, 34, as "young man," an insult in the Middle East, Bashir returned to Beirut protesting that "they won't let me have my dignity." Amin does not share his brother's fondness for Israel, and the Begin government is determined to treat him with more consideration. Officials say that they will not insist...
Friedrich, like Wiesel, has finally understood very little. To understand very much would be an insult. But he has borne witness to a horrific, obscene lot, and the reader must feel something of the grati tude that the woman in the cold felt to ward Akhmatova...
...peace initiative and how they were not interested in hard bargaining with Israel. He added, "They will never accept an encroachment on their land or sovereignty. When Premier Begin says he will keep the Israeli settlements in the Sinai and defend them with force, it is an absolute insult to Egypt. I have tried to provide a model of friendship and coexistence for the rest of the Arab world leaders to emulate. Instead, I have become the object of extreme insult from Israel, and scorn and condemnation from the other Arab leaders. The Israeli attitude has worked against other Arabs...
...during the Holocaust and when Christians were being killed in Lebanon, is now prepared to meet the man who initiated the latter, and is trying to complete the Nazis' mission." The Vatican took the rare step of handing out a press communique branding the Israeli charges "an insult to the truth" and noting that John Paul, at Auschwitz hi 1979, had condemned Nazi genocide...
...democratic country did not hesitate to kill hundreds of thousands at Hiroshima. " After several more such combative interchanges, Sharon said: "Miss Fallaci! You are a very nice slander! and I don't want to lose my temper, but I never heard such slander! Such a lie! Such an insult!" Perhaps both counted on their dramatic exchanges' making the front page of the Washington Post, which they...