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- <text id=93TT2468>
- <title>
- Feb. 08, 1993: War of Words in a Worried Land
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
- Feb. 08, 1993 Cyberpunk
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- THE WEEK
- WORLD, Page 18
- War of Words in a Worried Land
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p>A barrage of insults over deported Palestinians raises new
- concerns
- </p>
- <p> NAME-CALLING IS NOTHING NEW IN THE MIDDLE East. But in the
- wake of Israel's expulsion of 415 Palestinians, the verbal
- exchanges have grown unusually disquieting. On Tuesday, U.N.
- Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali used the ominous phrase
- "whatever measures are necessary" in his appeal to the Security
- Council to enforce its resolution and effect the return of the
- fundamentalists. Twenty-two Islamic countries endorsed a draft
- resolution imposing economic sanctions if Israel does not
- comply. On Thursday, after Israel's High Court of Justice ruled
- the deportations legal, the language got even rougher. From
- their cold camp in southern Lebanon, the Palestinians branded
- the Israelis "Nazis." On Israeli TV, Prime Minister Yitzhak
- Rabin declared himself "not at all surprised by the United
- Nations, nor by Boutros-Ghali--he is an Egyptian."
- </p>
- <p> Washington tried to fend off a Security Council vote,
- lamely asking "to pursue this diplomatically." A U.S. veto could
- alienate the Arabs and thus complicate Clinton's task before he
- can get a word in edgewise.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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