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Article: The Arabs and Kosovo: Mixed feelings about the war.(there is a surprising amount of criticism in Arab countries over the NATO bombings in Yugoslavia)(Brief Article)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- May 22, 1999
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THE day NATO started bombing Yugoslavia, Arab newspapers, like European and American ones, carried banner headlines about the raids. But on the editorial pages the view was generally very different: whereas NATO's leaders seemed to expect praise from Muslim Arabs for the defence of their co-religionists in Kosovo, they earned mainly rebukes for side- stepping the United Nations and ``taking the law into their own hands''. One columnist in a London-based Arabic daily claimed that ``the present offensive against Serbia shows that NATO is determined to strip the international community of its power.''Many Muslims in the Middle East do, of course, sympathise ...