Word: israel
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...surprising that Mount, whose art education began when he apprenticed himself to his brother, a sign painter, should have made a few early stabs at the Grand Manner; and even less so that he was wholly inept at it. Greece, Rome and Israel were very far from bustling, nouveau-riche young America. Mount, a farmer's boy from Setauket, Long Island (a suburb today, deep country then), was very much part of that America, a country inventor who made his own boats and believed that a "hollow-backed" violin he had designed was better than anything from Cremona. Sensibly...
Arab anger against America is caused by the U.S.'s continuous support of Israel, whose policy is settlement and the de facto annexation of occupied West Bank lands and Jerusalem. America will pursue the bombers to the maximum extent but do next to nothing about the sources of Arab frustration. The U.S. needs to pressure Israel to change its ways...
...Israel wants to take over and merge captured Arab territory into its lands, then in my opinion the best chance for peace is for the Israelis to create a new name and new flag for their country that both Jewish and Arab citizens can identify with. This change would have a deep impact on Arab views about participating in a country they once held and lost in war. PAUL ELLIOT Acton, Mass...
...Iran may need an additional two years before it can deploy a rocket reliable enough for military operations. In a region full of perils, Shahab-3 is only one more potential menace. U.S. warships in the Persian Gulf can be hit by shorter-range Iranian Scud missiles. And Israel, which reacted calmly to the Iranian launch, already lies within range of Syrian, Egyptian, Saudi and Iraqi missiles...
...Israel's nuclear arsenal has proved enough to deter its old enemies from new aggression. But an Israeli official admits that Tehran's development of longer-range missiles "is a big deal because the Iranians are not known to follow the same logic as some of our other neighbors." President Clinton worried aloud that the Iranian missile "could change the regional-stability dynamics in the Middle East." What that means, says Ian Lesser, an analyst with the Rand Corp., is that in a future crisis, such allies as Saudi Arabia and Turkey won't be eager to join...