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Israel Must Put the Arabs on the Diplomatic Defensive
(Jerusalem Post) Zvi Mazel - We need to tell the truth, publicly and repeatedly: the Arabs themselves are to blame for their underdevelopment, and as long as they ignore basic civil rights their peoples will remain poor and illiterate, a prey to unemployment and illness. This situation, it needs to be emphasized over and over, has nothing to do with Israel or the conflict in the Middle East. The writer, a career diplomat for 38 years, was Israel's ambassador to Romania, Egypt, and Sweden.