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...role in the negative decisions. Samuelson went on to create one of the countrys most powerful economic departments down the river at MIT, and in a final irony not explicitly noted by the authors, has lived to see his nephew Lawrence H. Summers become the Universitys first practicing Jewish president this year...
...informed the royal family that he and his Arab Afghans were prepared to defend the kingdom. The offer was spurned. Instead, the Saudis invited in U.S. troops for the first time ever. Like many other Muslims, bin Laden was offended by the Army's presence, with its Christian and Jewish soldiers, its rock music, its women who drove and wore pants. Saudi Arabia has a singular place among Islamic countries as the cradle of Islam and as home to Mecca and Medina, which are barred to non-Muslims...
...Arab world begins to adapt to the process of democratization that the West has been undergoing for a few hundred years. The first requirement of such adaptation is self-accountability, and the essential sign of such self-accountability will be the ability to accept the reality of a Jewish state. The fuel of antisemitism is more explosive even than the jet fuel that brought down the World Trade Center. The longer it is accommodated or encouraged, the greater the danger to the worlds leading democracy. Once we understand that, we will better know what is to be doneand what isnt...
...also known as the Street of the Storytellers. In the past, travellers stopped to rest in its tea-shops and tell fantastic tales of their journeys. Today the rumors that swirl through Qissa Khawani are no less fanciful. One of the more common is the allegation that 4,000 Jewish people who supposedly worked in the World Trade Center stayed at home the day of the attacks. "It was all arranged by Israel," says Abdul Baky, a 26 year-old shopkeeper. "The Jews stayed away, and kept their paper records outside their offices." He is holding a sign which reads...
...like the term "Islamic terrorist" either. "Islam means peace," says Maulana Said Palanpuri, the school's Arabic professor. "There are people who distort God's teaching and we condemn them. But why do people in the West use the term Islamic terrorist and not Christian terrorist or Jewish terrorist when Christian and Jews commit atrocities...