Word: tunnels
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...unaware of the circumstances of the region and the bloody history it represents. But is it really conceivable that Palestinians chose to sacrifice over 70 of their own and jeopardize their hope to end years of illegal occupation and savage massacres because of an "innocuous, inconspicuous and wholly inoffensive tunnel?" Can anyone be truly convinced that Palestinian protest towards the irresponsible affairs of a more powerful state are only "hysterically paranoid comments?" Former prime minister Shimon Peres expressed his disappointment by saying that no Israeli mother he knows is willing to sacrifice her children for tourism, that nothing positive could...
...tunnel crisis in Jerusalem incensed Egyptians, despite President Hosni Mubarak's previous admonitions for patience with Benjamin Netanyahu. Mubarak refused to attend the summit in Washington two weeks ago, saying it would be fruitless. Other Arab leaders, including Jordan's King Hussein, who attended the summit, have since expressed their frustration with Israel. Last week, at a retreat on the Suez Canal, Egypt's leader spoke of disappointments and dangers with TIME Middle East correspondent Scott MacLeod and reporter Amany Radwan...
This is the Middle Eastern equivalent of a mob of whites torching a black church, killing parishioners and burning its holy objects. Yet, while the tunnel received enormous coverage complete with diagrams, the desecration at Joseph's Tomb, if reported at all, merited at most a few sentences. And a similar Palestinian attempt to firebomb Judaism's third holiest shrine, Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, received in the major American press no mention at all, save one in the New York Times--in a picture caption on page...
...debate the merits of the Jerusalem tunnel. But whatever one's view, it is hard to have a debate when one cannot get the facts straight. And one cannot get the facts straight because of the double standard in Middle East coverage that impugns Israel's every move and patronizes Palestinians with endless free passes...
...there been a word of condemnation from anyone--outside official Israel and the occasional columnist--for the spreading of the Aqsa blood libel? Indeed, when the tunnel pretext evaporated, the press simply moved on. Retraction? Apology? Hardly. Instead, the press shifted seamlessly to a new explanation--justification--of Palestinian violence: it was a product of "frustration." What kind of rationale is that for murder? Timothy McVeigh was frustrated...