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...three more Socialist ministers had quit their posts, among them Foreign Minister Leopold Gratz, who refused to ''direct the Austrian foreign service in the defense of President Waldheim.'' International reaction to the electoral triumph of the former U.N. Secretary-General was not much warmer. Official congratulations were withheld by Yugoslavia, Albania, Greece and the Netherlands. President Reagan sent what his aides described as a ''correct'' message. In both the U.S. and Britain, legislators suggested that Waldheim be barred from their countries. But the sharpest protest against Waldheim's election came from Israel: Jerusalem promptly recalled its ambassador from Austria...
...evil empire bent on stealing a part of Serbia, while Tadic was labeled as traitor who was ready to sacrifice Kosovo for a distant promise of E.U. membership. The Radicals, whose chairman Vojislav Seselj is on trial for war crimes at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia in The Hague, even threatened to impeach Tadic immediately after the elections and try him for high treason. They also vowed to root out other pro-European "traitors" from political scene and form a strong bond with Russia, which might have turned Serbia into a Balkan version of Belarus...
...That is a political line with a very bloody history. Serbian strongman Slobodan Milosevic and his supporters used it to foment Yugoslavia's wars of dissolution in the early 1990s, when they stirred up the defiance of Serb enclaves against independence for Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These sentiments were invoked again in 1999, when Milosevic's security forces tried to push ethnic Albanians out of Kosovo. All these efforts ended in war and tragedy, not least for Serbs. Yet the failure of extreme nationalism to improve the lot of Serbs doesn't appear to have blunted its appeal...
...Holocaust.” Dershowitz said Arab states’ rejection of the resolution has hindered the creation of a Palestinian state. During the discussion, Dershowitz said he still advocates a two-state solution. He criticized Chomsky’s vision of a bi-national state modelled after Yugoslavia and Lebanon, calling it a “euphemism for the end of Israel as a Jewish state.” After presenting his own view of the Nakba and related history, Dershowitz answered questions, saying he would only take up questions from audience members who disagreed with him. Some...
...audience reacts to the questions raised by his films. Personal experience has been vital in driving Forgács to make his movies. He spent 39 years living behind the Iron Curtain and, in the 1990s, was deeply affected by the massacres that took place in the former Yugoslavia, just 200 miles south of his home in Budapest. His experiences with violence and persecution made Forgács reflect on the historical precedents of these events. One of the most noticeable features of Forgács’ films is how they show the human side of people who have...