Word: westernness
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Last Tuesday, in a bitter replay of a 1991 incident, Arabs pelted Jewish worshippers at the Western Wall with a hail of stones, forcing an evacuation. How can the Palestinians expect their plea for religious toleration to be taken seriously when many of them lack sensitivity? To complicate their outrage at Israeli "insensitivity," Palestinians demonstrated a brand of their own in their attempt to set alight the tomb of Rachel, one of the matriarchs of the Jewish people. In all of this, Yassir Arafat's growing resume of handshakes and photo-ops have demonstrated that in spite of what...
...Cuban foreign minister Roberto Robaina, decrying U.S. imperialism. He cited the Helms-Burton Act, a trade law which attempts to futher isolate the Cuban economy. U.S. allies in Western Europe, Latin America have also criticized the measure...
That case was intuitively apparent in Kuwait, where hundreds of stagnant black lakes of wasted crude oil still cover miles of desert, bearing permanent witness to the threat from Iraq. Kuwait's government, says a Western official, "always asks why the U.S. can't do more against Saddam--though they know the policy the U.S. is pursuing is the only practical...
...Muslim solidarity above all. Frustration over the lack of peace progress colors the reaction elsewhere in the Arab world. Fearing the impact of a real rift, Kuwaiti officials fanned out to make sure the rest of the gulf understood their support for U.S. military moves. "Their message," says a Western official, "was to get attention off the U.S. missile strikes and on Saddam's threat...
...fundamental goals of the coalition: containing Iraq and maintaining economic sanctions on Saddam. If he dares to menace anyone outside his borders, the alliance will snap together to oppose him. But Saddam retains a frustrating capacity to unsettle the coalition at any time. And the latest encounter, says a Western official in Kuwait, demonstrates that when the threat from Iraq is not self-evident and the justification from Washington is not clear, "no one will leap to support the U.S." In fact, Turkey, which is worried about cross-border attacks by the Kurds, has urged Baghdad to take control...