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Article: Faith, here's an equivocator. (the hostage crises in the Middle East)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- August 12, 1989
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Faith, here's an equivocator
LADY MACBETH would feel at home in the hostage business. She would recognise, in the attitude of the western powers to Israel's abduction of Sheikh Abdel Karim Obeid, an echo of her husband's equivocation. Most governments which criticised the kidnapping now accept that it has helped stir things up in Iran. They are beginning to agree that it might lead to the release of their own hostages in Lebanon. What they dare not say is that Israel's deed was right, and that they wish devoutly to profit from it.
On August 8th a United Nations envoy, Mr Marrack Goulding, who was ostensibly in the Middle East in order to retrieve ...