Word: khatib
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Though they have never glimpsed Palestine, barely 40 miles across the low hills to the south, Mayor (Mukhtar) Said el Khatib believes that, "some of them know more than we do about the property back home." It is a knowledge that is cultivated. "When our sons first speak," says Masa'ad Haidary, 43, a holdout Arab warrior until 1948, "Palestine is in their mouths, and each morning before they eat we speak to them of Palestine...
...vote, however, the Amir allowed more opposition to his government's policies than ever before. Most of it was from leftists who object to his aloofness from the rest of the Arab world and his restrictions on foreigners and the press. "Unless we change," cried their leader, Ahmad Khatib, a physician, "we will end up as the richest anachronism of the modern age." To no one's surprise, the government forces won 45 of the 50 seats, a gain of nine over their 1963 victory. Khatib himself, so say the government vote counters, was defeated...
...response was short but to the point. Moniem El-Khatib, director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Iraq said, "the question of Arab refugees in Israel is one of blackmail...
Responding to a remark by El Khatib that many of the Democratcies in Europe were only superficial and that many of the "Democrats" are dangerous, Murugesu Sivasithamparam, Member of Parliament from Ceylon said, "If I am a demagogue I don't mind, Democracy must and shall prevail in Asia...
...final jab of the evening came predictably, from El Khatib who had been on the offensive all evening. When asked why he felt Japan's Democray was superficial, he replied that "the Japanese have a unique dexterity with imitation, and I can't help but feel that their government is a copy which includes a fundamental Right-Left split...