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...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 divided the land into a Jewish state and an Arab state. The Jews accepted, the Arabs did not, resulting in the displacement of some of the Palestinians. ADAM WIENER, INFORMATION OFFICER...
...Scott MacLeod's article was marred by the omission of key information about Arafat. MacLeod gave scant attention to Arafat's career as a terrorist over a period that has spanned decades and continues to this day. Absent in this portrait was a long list of atrocities committed by Fatah and P.L.O. member groups under Arafat's guidance. MacLeod virtually ignored Arafat's autocratic regime and the lack of democracy in the Palestinian areas. HENRY FRANK Camp Hill...
...Scott MacLeod: Cheaper air travel may be a contributing factor, but the primary reason for the scale of the hajj today is that over the two decades of the reign of King Fahd, the Saudis have made a top priority of making the pilgrimage more accessible to Muslims. Fahd came to power when Saudi Arabia was flush with oil revenues, and he allocated many millions of dollars to upgrading the Holy sites in Saudi Arabia to make them more accessible to pilgrims. Using oil revenues, the capacity of the great mosque at Medina was expanded almost tenfold, while the capacity...
...greater cooperation, end wars, promote prosperity and evolve into a single political body to rival NAFTA and the European Union. As Africa's leaders gathered in Libya this week to discuss the Union, Dr. Ali Treki, the Libyan secretary for African unity, spoke to TIME Cairo bureau chief Scott MacLeod about the future of the continent...
...both Yasser Arafat and Ehud Barak, but only Barak agreed, spending 20 minutes on the phone with Beyer on Saturday. Rees and his team have been out on the streets and into the many trouble spots to bring vivid accounts of the drama now unfolding. Cairo bureau chief SCOTT MACLEOD headed for the Gaza Strip, AMANY RADWAN monitored the Egyptian government's mediation efforts, Tehran stringer AZADEH MOAVENI kept watch on the volatile Lebanese border from Beirut, and veteran war correspondent ED BARNES hopped a flight on Thursday to Tel Aviv. From our safe haven in New York City...