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Everything West And Middle East Need

Juan Cole 02/09/2006

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Everything the West and the Middle East Need Could have been Learned in Kindergarten

1. Don’t make fun of people for things they were born with, like big noses, skin color or their religion.

Danish newspaper carries caricatures offensive to Muslims.
2. Two wrongs don’t make a right.

Iranian newspaper plans to run caricatures about the Holocaust.

3. You can’t just take toys you want from the children who own them.

Ehud Olmert announces that Israel will unilaterally retain 40% of the West Bank, Palestinian territory captured by the Israelis in the 1967 War.

4. Don’t take your anger with one person out on another child.

Radical elements in Lebanese Muslim crowd attack Christian church.

5. Don’t tell fibs about the other children.

Rice blames secular, Alawi-dominated Syria Baath Party for instigating religious protests. In fact, Syria did no such thing (see below.)

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About the Author

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page

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