Word: holocaustal
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...existence of the secret Iranian nuclear facility near Qum, a group of TIME editors were sitting down to interview Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at his New York City hotel. Our strategy was to avoid the obvious questions - Ahmadinejad has been grilled relentlessly about his heinous views on the Holocaust - but there was an obvious question that needed to be asked immediately: What was his reaction to the impending Obama statement? He seemed befuddled. His first response was incomprehensible: "So, is all the information that Mr. Obama receives of the same nature?" TIME's managing editor, Rick Stengel, asked the question...
...practice has had some successes: President Dwight D. Eisenhower defused a row over the Suez Canal with economic sanctions against Britain; Swiss banks were forced to pay reparations to Holocaust survivors when faced with a boycott, led by some U.S. states, for harboring pilfered assets; and stiff sanctions helped convince Libya to disavow terrorism after the 1988 Lockerbie jetliner bombing. But those are generally the exceptions. "Putting a sanction on a country always seems to be an inexpensive way to address the problem," Senator Richard Lugar of Indiana has said. "Unfortunately, almost none of these sanctions have brought about change...
...Polanski made the Holocaust drama The Pianist, starring Adrien Brody. The first film he had shot in Poland since Knife in the Water, it won the Cannes Film Festival's top honor, the Palme d'Or, in 2002, and the Academy Award for directing in 2003. Polanski did not attend the Academy Awards ceremony because he faced arrest upon setting foot...
...such a community. And I believe that the whole world is plotting against them, against the Jews. They want to get rid of them, the world wants to. And things that happened in the past indicate or give witness to this idea or this notion. It was the Holocaust in Europe. We all know that, this is a fact. (Read TIME's 1981 cover story about Libya...
...Jews. And this can be done by them accepting the Palestinians, recognizing the Palestinians, accepting that fact that they should live with the Palestinians in one state, together. Unfortunately, the Jews are fighting or struggling against their own friend - the Arabs. The Arabs did not do the Holocaust, and the Arabs are not the Romans who persecuted them or massacred them. The only way open for them is to accept the Arabs and to accept to live with them, to co-exist with them. Because the establishment of a pure Hebrew state is not in their own interest. That would...