Word: palestinians
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Your report referred to a Palestinian minister who took Israel to task for not recognizing Arabs as equals and for seeking military solutions instead of political ones. What political solutions did he have in mind? The Palestinians elected Hamas to lead them, and the heroes of the Lebanese are their Hizballah warlords. Both Hamas and Hizballah are loudly and proudly dedicated to the destruction of Israel...
...editors: Shai Bronshtein’s controversial op-ed “A City By Any Other Name” (Sep. 11) is a blatant distortion of facts and a reprehensible attempt to confer legitimacy on Israeli occupation of Palestinian lands. The Israeli settlement enterprise has become a universal emblem of colonialism in the 21st century. This insignia of theft and robbery from the poor and the desolate should only be condemned and deplored. The argument flagrantly proffered by Mr. Bronshtein that Palestinian territories were “no man’s land” prior to the arrival...
...furor his words would spark - and many would argue it wasn't hard to foresee - the Vatican's attempts at damage control may be a little too late. The speech has already elicited harsh denunciations from political and religious leaders from Pakistan and Iraq to Lebanon and the Palestinian Territories. In Turkey, the home of Pope John Paul II's would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Agca, the comments struck such a nerve that they managed to erase old distinctions between conservative Muslims, including leaders of the ruling Justice and Development party, and secular nationalists in the country. Several Turkish...
...recording. "About the only response that produced was from leaders of the Muslim community - most of whom who oppose that law - telling extremists and foreign Muslims to mind their own business." (Zawahiri got a similar response earlier this year when he publicly scolded Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood and the Palestinian Hamas movement for contesting parliamentary elections...
...determine whether the incident was in fact the work of al-Qaeda or that of other individuals seeking to add to the carnage. Anti-American feelings are high throughout the Middle East, which in recent months has been gripped not only by the war in Iraq and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict but the ferocious summer battles between Israel and Hizballah in Lebanon. With radicals blaming the U.S. in all three wars, it is prudent to assume that some of them may seize this opportunity to strike...