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AP/Hatem Ali Strange the way things line up, the through-lines that suddenly reveal themselves amidst the twists and turns of historical progression. Last month, in these pages, I was writing about the ways in which Israel’s ongoing treatment of Gaza and the Palestinians cooped up therein (the strangulating siege, the warehoused concentration-camp-like conditions, the regularly recurrent assaults, the lopsided carnage) put me in mind, not so much of the fate of the Jews and gays and Gypsies in Dachau or the Warsaw Ghetto in the years before the Final Solution, or the Afrikaners under the British during the Boer War, or the Sowetans under apartheid, or the Japanese-Americans in their World War II internment camps (all analogies regularly invoked both by me and others), as that faced by the citizens of Sarajevo during the terrible 1,500 days of their siege and bombardment by the Bosnia Serbs from 1992 through 1995. And then furthermore, come to have thought of it, how unca ....
UCLA experts say it’s a positive step, but overcoming stereotypes will require more work UCLA Delan Bruce | April 29, 2021 On April 1, the U.S. Department of State for the first time announced it would formally recognize April as Arab American Heritage Month. Ned Price, spokesman for the State Department, noted that the contributions of Americans of Arab heritage to the nation are “as old as America itself.” Though celebrated for years in many communities and schools, the federal government has yet to formally acknowledge the observance. On April 26, Michigan congresswomen Rashida Tlaib and Debbie Dingell introduced the Arab American Heritage Month Resolution. The two were among a quartet of representatives who introduced a similar bill in April 2020. ....
Emirati Influence Hangs Over Israel’s Normalization Wave - Could Mauritania Be Next? Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/analysis/202012181081505353-emirati-influence-hangs-over-israels-normalization-wave -could-mauritania-be-next/ Last week, Morocco became the seventh Arab state to normalize relations with Israel and the fifth in as many months. With the US brokering so many deals, it raises the question of which nation will be next. Regional experts told Sputnik there is good reason to believe the Islamic Republic of Mauritania will soon bury the hatchet with Jerusalem. In 1967 in Khartoum, Sudan, the members of the Arab League met in the wake of the devastating Six-Day War and pledged to uphold “three nos” with regard to Israel: no peace, no recognition and no negotiations. However, just 11 years later, Egypt became the first Arab nation to break the pact, signing a peace treaty with Israel at Camp David, Maryland, in 1978, brokered by US Preside ....