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U.S. moves inflame Arab moderates - -

By Nicholas Blanford

from the April 26, 2004 edition

		ON DUTY: US soldiers search an Iraqi man at a traffic checkpoint outside Najaf. The US's policy in Iraq and its support of Israel has inflamed Arabs in the region. SAURABH DAS/AP

US moves inflame Arab moderates

President Bush's public support of Israel has alienated even some Arabs who favor democratization.

By Nicholas Blanford | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor

BEIRUT, LEBANON � In more peaceful times, the United States would be hard-pressed to find a more sympathetic friend in the Arab world than Munir Shammaa.

A distinguished doctor and university professor, the Lebanese Christian says he learned "the American principles of fair play, intellectual integrity, courage, and the importance of human rights" while studying at Harvard University in Cambridge, Mass., and practicing medicine at Massachusetts General Hospital in the 1950s.


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