Word: mideast
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Take this sentence: "The Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkashs." It is a classic of faculty logic that works something like this: some anti-Semites in America have recently desecrated sukkahs: other Americans have recently criticized Israel; therefore, the sukkah-desecrators must be "critics of Israel" and the critics of Israel must sympathize with the sukkah-desecrators...
...irony here is rich. The President's immensely practical efforts on the Mideast front had secured an agreement that generated great worldwide hope--yet his reliance on the same hope on the domestic front secured him little in the way of practical results...
...mental anxiety for Jewish observers. For as recent terrorist attacks on Jewish civilians in Paris and Rome indicate anti-Israel sentiments--made more widespread and acceptable by recent events--can easily degenerate into violet and irrational anti-Semitism. Even at bastions of enlightenment such as Ivy League universities the Mideast political turmoil has led some critics of Israel to express their views by vandalizing sukkans. Fortunately the vast majority of observers have condemned such wanton destruction as a base and vicious way of making a political statement...
...admirable, it often distracts attention from the more upsetting motives that may well lie behind such "anti-Israel" fervor. We cannot forget that criticism of Israel itself frequently stems from prejudice against Jews in general and should remember this distasteful really when considering and formulating opinions about the Mideast...
...minute prepared speech, Arena said that Israel's swift destruction of Russian-made equipment had significantly changed the perception of Russian influence in the Mideast and the world...