Word: scuds
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Which at the moment seems a monstrous if. In Israel only the left wing would consider anything resembling the Saudi approach, and it has been discredited by Palestinian cheers for the Scud missiles rained on Israel by Iraq during the war. Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir has no intention of yielding an inch of the occupied territories; he will not even promote his own 1989 plan to hold elections in the territories and then negotiate limited autonomy with the people's choices. If Shamir should falter, he may be brought down by the rightists in the governing Likud coalition who want...
Wolf Blitzer The man with one emotion (stoicism) and a singular name launched a thousand late-night gags. Now that the war's over, his popularity may evaporate. But as a serious journalist, he's probably better off without the hubbub. Just ask Arthur Kent, the Scud Stud...
...NONE of this happened. No long quagmire, no massive numbers of American deaths, no diplomatic crisis, no Israeli reprisals for the Iraqi Scud attacks. Almost none of the horrible events predicted by the American intelligentsia and the U.S. government came true. So should we support...
...Palestinians tell their own version of the war. An Iraqi Scud missile slammed into Israel's Ben Gurion Airport, killing 400 Soviet Jewish immigrants just off the plane. Thousands of Israelis were slaughtered by the Scuds, and the Dimona nuclear complex in the Negev lies in ruins. The Americans lost 100,000 soldiers in battle. Iraq's withdrawal from Kuwait was only tactical, designed to lull the allies, while Saddam Hussein waited for the right moment to incinerate the Jewish state. "Every Palestinian knows that Saddam will emerge victorious," said Abdul Majeed Shahin as he discussed the war with...
...reaction on the streets of the West Bank, Gaza and Jordan is defiant. "Maybe he lost the battle, but that doesn't mean he lost the war," said Faisal al Afghani, whose Amman souvenir shop sells miniature Scud missiles. "We haven't had a leader like Saddam since Saladin." Unable to digest Iraq's defeat, many sought refuge in elaborate rationalizations. "The surrender of Iraqi troops," declared Stawri Khayat, a 30-year-old linguist from Jerusalem, "was staged by the Zionist-controlled media...