Word: sabra
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Jamaican curry goat went for eight dollars a plate, while a few feet away, falafel, humus and tabouli sizzled at the Sabra Grill; chicken masala from the Diva Indian Bistro and Thai fried rice rounded out a mix of ethnic dishes...
...friends went to Franji in the early afternoon. One of them pushed Abdullah's bicycle up the sandy alley to her front door in Gaza's poor Sabra neighborhood. They had heard that Abdullah was dead, shot by masked policemen from Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority after he joined a rally by Hamas students that had passed by his school. The policemen fired into the crowd, and Abdullah took a round in the head. But none of Abdullah's friends wanted to be the one to tell Franji that the long battle for power between Arafat and the Islamists...
...long been better than their U.S. counterparts at covering the misery of Palestinians. I would date the growth of European sympathy for the Palestinian cause to Israel's 1982 incursion into Lebanon, and especially to the massacre by Israel's Lebanese allies of Palestinian refugees in the camps of Sabra and Shatila--an outrage for which an official Israeli inquiry held Ariel Sharon indirectly responsible. Sharon, ever since, has been a hate figure for the European left. Europeans who grew up after 1945 have developed a loathing for those who seek to prosecute political ends by military means. Sharon...
...Princeton Professor of International Law Richard Falk, it got significantly worse. Last June, Falk appeared on a BBC episode of “Panorama” that explored the role of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre. Falk, who is Jewish and who was a part of the international commission that investigated Sharon’s involvement in the massacre, stated that he had “no doubt whatsoever” that Sharon is indictable as a war criminal. Over the course of the next few weeks, the phone calls and hate mail...
...also have a personal incentive to end your government’s frightful policies. There is a growing international campaign to indict you for your part in the 1982 massacres in the Sabra and Chatila refugee camps, with Belgium willing to host your trial. Princeton professor of international law Richard Falk affirms that there is “no doubt whatsoever” that you are indictable as a war criminal. Even Israeli newspapers have begun using the term “war crime” to describe not only your checkered past, but also your recent house demolitions...