Word: slaughtered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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When confronted with the possibility of NATO airstrikes, they promptly pulled most of their big guns out of the Sarajevo area. But the Serbs simply took them to other cities to help out with the slaughter there. Clearly, a giant game of musical howitzers is not the answer. Helping the Bosnian government achieve military parity is. Only then will they stand a chance of survival...
...real tragedy of Al-Khalil, and one senses the larger reason behind the subsequent riots, lies less in the acts of madman sub specie aeternitatis and more in the existence of a principle that allowed such slaughter in the first place. In maintaining a policy whereby Jewish setters may be heavily armed while Palestinians in the proximate area are expressly prohibited from defending themselves, Israel belies its avowed evenhandedness in the peace process...
...Israelis say they realize that even before the Hebron massacre, Arafat was having growing trouble maintaining support for the peace process among his own people. The slaughter in the mosque only made things much worse: some of the subsequent rioting and demonstrations took a sharply anti-Arafat as well as anti-Israeli tone. When Faisal Husseini, the head of the West Bank division of Fatah, Arafat's own faction, visited the Dome of the Rock in East Jerusalem, Palestinian mobs stoned him until he was forced to leave. They chanted, "Arafat is a bastard!" or "Arafat...
...valid excuse for taking some action. Immediately after the mosque massacre, the government slapped a curfew on Jews in Hebron and Kiryat Arba, an unprecedented step in applying to Jews a remedy used regularly against Palestinian troublemakers. Government ministers emerging from a Cabinet meeting after the Hebron slaughter discussed a number of other ideas with reporters. Environment Minister Yossi Sarid spoke of expelling militant settlers from the territories. Education Minister Amnon Rubinstein advocated completely outlawing Kach, the political party established by Kahane, with which Goldstein was affiliated. The party is already barred from participating in elections. Tourism Minister Uzi Baram...
...They're going to come to your room. They'regoing to feed you this stuff. You're going to beblitzed out of your mind. It will be a trulytranscendental experience," Slaughter said."Thoreau went out to Walden because this optionwasn't available...