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Article: Ethnic cleansing, by many other names, THE WORLDPAPER
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- May 1, 1999
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Rachelle H.B. Fishman
World Paper (USA)
05-01-1999
No matter the semantics, a brutal reality of the 20th century
Two years ago, just after Christmas, the Palestinian Authority's
official television channel aired a report that the Old Testament was actually
set in what is today Yemen. This tied in nicely with a map, prepared by
the Arab Studies Society, that was innocent of every remnant of Jewish
archeology and history.
How elegant. "Ethnic cleansing," and not a shot fired.
As NATO wages its humanitarian war against Serbia, many Israelis are
awash with conflicting feelings and emotions, not least because of the
comparisons that can be drawn between the situation in Kosovo and Israel's
history.
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