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ISRAEL. With a so-called Mecca Declaration, named for Islam's holiest city, the delegates unanimously declared a jihad, or holy war, against Israel, using their combined "military, economic and political resources-including oil." The proclamation proposed broad new economic sanctions against Israel, along the lines of the 35-year-old Arab League boycott...
...Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin scoffed at the predictable militancy: "No jihad is going to frighten us." As if to underscore the point, late last week Israeli warplanes strafed Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon, the first cross-border attacks this year...
...Arabia abruptly severed diplomatic relations with Tripoli. Gaddafi had charged the Saudis with "desecrating" Islam's sacred shrines in Mecca by allowing U.S. AW ACS surveillance planes to fly protective reconnaissance missions over the country's oilfields. The radical Libyan leader also called for a pan-Islamic jihad, or holy war, to "liberate the house of God in Mecca" - in effect, an incitement to overthrow the Saudi government. Saudi Arabia's normally placid King Khalid angrily denounced Gaddafi as "a Muslim outcast who deserves God's wrath" and as "a spearhead of Israel against Islam...
...polls show Proposition 2 1/2 will likely pass, barring a last minute organizational jihad from the public employee's unions. Backed by the state's businessmen, especially the industrial aristocrats who rule the fabled domain of High Tech, the 2 1/2 campaign has promised taxpayers cash in their pockets and assured local residents that new industry will flood in once taxes fall. But Wheaton's data--and that of most others who have studied the question--show that "tax differences between metropolitan areas have no measurable impact on industrial development." Instead, the MIT professor writes, the level of demand...
...successes, Iraq so far has been unable to crush Iranian resistance. One reason has been the tenacity of the Iranians. Khomeini welcomed the war from the outset as a blessing in disguise; his enthusiasm appears undiminished by military setbacks. Last week he called on Iranians to prepare for a jihad, or holy war, against Saddam's "pagan regime...