Word: muslim
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Along with admirers, the Beit Hashoah already has critics. Muslim organizations charge that the museum ignores the plight of Palestinians. New York Times senior writer Judith Miller, author of One, by One, by One: Facing the Holocaust, accuses the museum of "vulgarization," noting that some Jewish scholars consider the "sound and light" approach disrespectful...
That word reverberated through the deportation controversy last week. No, the Israeli High Court of Justice ruled, it would not reverse the government's decision to deport the Muslim fundamentalists who are accused of inciting violence in Israel and the occupied territories. No, the Palestine Liberation Organization said, it would no longer delay pressing its demand for sanctions against Israel at the United Nations. No, said Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, he would not give in and take back the exiles despite that threat...
...such calculations are not so easy. Intervention on behalf of the Muslims might make the Serbs more pliable, but it might also make the Muslims more intractable. "Shifting battlefield fortunes have apparently made Bosnia's Slavic Muslim-led government reluctant to accept the ((Vance)) plan," reports Peter Maass of the Washington Post. And nothing would shift Muslim battlefield fortunes more than American intervention. Its mere prospect has hardened the Muslim negotiating position...
...plan would let the Bosnians do that within a largely ceremonial and insubstantial Bosnian state. Yet there is much grumbling in the U.S. about Vance. Those who worshipped him when his State Department was negotiating away American control of the Panama Canal now find him insufficiently zealous in ; defending Muslim interests in Bosnia...
TELEVISION PICTURES HAVE KEPT THE AGONY OF Sarajevo before the world's eyes. But in many other parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina, the war's victims are dying unseen. Amateur radio operators desperately broadcast news from Zepa, a small Muslim enclave in a Serb-controlled region 35 miles east of Sarajevo. Through the static, they reported that in one 24-hour period last week, 85 people, including 51 children, died from cold and hunger...