1. "I have a problem with some of the needlessly vicious things about Arabs that we [the New Republic] publish," Michael Kinsley, 1992
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2. "needlessly vicious" is such a Michael Kinsley phrase. I suppose he'd be okay with necessarily vicious anti-Arab comments
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3. What's the word for a magazine that publishes "needlessly vicious" comments about entire ethnic groups? It's on the tip of my tongue.
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4. Martin Peretz: the Arabs have "a national characterological inability to compromise" and are "crazed."
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5. Peretz: Israel must inflict on Palestinians "a lasting military defeat which will clarify to the Palestinians living in the West Bank..."
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6. "...that their struggle for an independent state has suffered a setback of many years."
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7. Peretz: then the "Palestinians will be turned into just another crushed nation, like the Kurds or the Afghans..." (statement circa 1982)
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8. So: the owner of a liberal magazine wanted to do the Palestinians what the Turks had done to the Kurds & the Russians to the Afghans.
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9. All quotes here taken from @Eric_Alterman's essential "Sound and Fury: The Making of the Punditocracy"
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