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...Arabs through decades of terrorism. Had the Palestinian Arabs had a Gandhi to lead them instead of an Arafat, they would have had their state years ago. Arafat's war against Israel, including the massacre of Israeli athletes at Munich in '72 and the murder of 21 schoolchildren in Ma'alot in '74, isolated the Palestinian cause and resulted in the Palestinians-as-terrorists stereotype. The latest round of terrorism Arafat has launched against Israel has devastated the Palestinian economy. MacLeod ignored the context in which the Palestinian refugees were created in 1948. At that time, the U.N. partition plan...
...need to tell that to Ma'rus, a dazed looking Madurese refugee cradling her 15-day-old baby beneath a stretched tarpaulin in Sampit. Her fellow refugees are squeezed into every bit of shade they can find within a few hundred meters of the regional government office building. None dare to stray any farther for fear of Dayak patrols conducting what they call "sweeping" exercises: they are searching for Madurese to murder. The hospital around the corner from the refugee camp is almost empty, a health official says, although hundreds of refugees need medical help. It isn't considered safe...
...baby was seven days old when Ma'rus fled into the jungle to escape Dayaks attacking her village, Serambut Besar. She stayed there for three days before gaining the courage to board a boat for a day's journey downriver to Sampit. Now her baby?it is a girl but as yet has no name, a domestic pleasure she can't yet contemplate?has a fever. Ma'rus doesn't have the strength to fight for a place on the government trucks bringing refugees to boats leaving for Java. This Tuesday morning, after five days in Sampit, she didn...
...tent she now calls home, emerging sometimes to help other women cook and clean. She doesn't speak to anybody, but is constantly muttering to herself. Only when I draw within a meter of her do I realize that she is chanting the name of a family deity: "Ma Sherawali... Ma Sherawali... Ma Sherawali..." She clings to a small idol of the Tiger-Borne Goddess she found in the rubble near the camp...
...like opening the floodgates with multiple early action. Harvard enjoys an 80% yield, but Brown was probably doing more work for less return," said Michael Denning, college counselor at Nobles and Greenough School a private school in Dedham, MA...