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...reasons for their caution are plain to see: Many Chileans feared that the generals who'd voluntarily allowed the restoration of democracy in 1990 were simply watching and waiting, and if presented with a distasteful political scenario they might once again demand the keys to the national palace and slaughter their political opponents. In other words, Chileans were not scared of Augusto Pinochet Ugarte himself; they feared his uniform and the power it signified, even after he'd given up wearing...
...past 50 years Israel has been attacked no less than five times by the Palestinians and neighboring Arab states. Until very recently, the Palestinian charter called for the destruction of Israel. Palestinian textbooks often don't acknowledge the existence of Israel. Palestinian clerics call upon their congregants to slaughter Jews. Hate crimes against Jews by Palestinians have skyrocketed all over the the world in the past six weeks. My own synagogue had a window smashed by a young Palestinian-American...
...peaceniks don't buy it. To them, Sharon embodies the old expansionist Israel of settlements and the Lebanon war. For Palestinians, he's a symbol of the slaughter that befell them at the hands of Israel's Lebanese Christian militia allies in the Sabra and Shatila refugee area near Beirut. The official government report found that Sharon as Defense Minister had "indirect responsibility" for the massacres, and that event remains an essential part of the Arab vision of him.* "For us," says Ziad Abu Amr, a member of the Palestinian Legislative Council from Gaza, "he could never be anything except...
...real story), no payoff. It would have played better as an IMAX two-hour CGI wave fest. And just as I tuned out in The Patriot to start asking myself important questions about the film's subject matter, I did the same for The Perfect Storm. Did they slaughter real fish for the packing sequences? Did the PETA get upset - or are fish fair game for slaughter? Can you ever rid yourself of the fish stench if you're a fisherman? Would you get less dates if you can't get rid of the stench? Maybe a really strong cologne...
Talking about the Rwanda tragedy, Power castigated the U.S. government for not even holding a cabinet-level meeting about the slaughter and also criticized the U.N.'s handling of the crisis...