Word: westernness
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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This tunnel, which is in fact part of an archaeological excavation, does not impinge on any Islamic holy places. It does not threaten any mosques. The only religious site it does touch is Judaism's holiest shrine, the Western Wall. The excavation had been open for eight years. It needed another gate to allow more visitors...
What happened? The Western media were simply taken in by a lie--an easily provable lie--put out by the P.L.O. and the Arab League. At Arafat's urging, the League issued within 48 hours of the tunnel's opening a declaration calling the tunnel "part of an Israeli Zionist plot to destroy the Aqsa mosque [and] set up the Temple of Solomon...
Anti-Israel bias in Western coverage of the Middle East has a long, ignoble history. Rarely, however, does it take so stark a form as a reported desecration that is totally false and real desecrations that are barely reported...
Your report underlined two major problems in Western society: we fail to take responsibility for our own acts, and we continually get ourselves into difficult situations and look to someone else for a solution. Drug abuse will be with us as long as we adults teach by example that every problem can be resolved by putting another capsule into our mouths. Everything--from minor headaches to boredom and from stress to fatigue--comes under this heading. Is it any wonder that teenagers follow our example? (The Rev) JOHN LEESE Bivange, Luxembourg...
...know much more about Columbus than the romanticized account of him they learn in grade school--that in 1492, he sailed out courageously from Spain, bound for India, but ended up discovering the New World. Every October, his holiday is supposed to commemorate a high point in Western history...