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Middle Eastern Studies 40, no. 1 (January 2004): 89. - Radio Tripoli, 7 August 1988, Daily Report, and al-Jamahiriyya, Tripoli, 19
November 1988. The theme that the Arabs and the Muslims should not pay for
Hitler’s crimes has been repeated by various Arab and Muslim figures, includ-
ing Iran’s president, Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad. See, e.g., New York Times, 29
October and 15 December 2005. - Qadhafi’s interviews by the Neue Kronen Zeitung, Vienna, 29 February
1988, and R. Monte Carlo, 10 August 1988, Daily Report. - E.g., TV Tripoli, 17 February 1987, British Broadcasting Corporation
(BBC) and 28 April 1987, Daily Report. - Al-Ahram, 23 February 1990, and al-Jamahiriyya, 6 April 1990. Alaska ap-
peared recurrently in a number of declarations by various Muslim leaders as a
recommended destination for the expulsion of Jews from “Palestine,” including
Iran’s president, quoted in the New York Times on 15 December 2005. Former
Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohammad proposed Texas as another
possible area for the relocation of the Israel state. MEMRI TV Project, clip no.
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Dogs: The U.S. Raids on Libya (Dover, N.H.: Pluto Press, 1986), and Brian L. Da-
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Report. - For more details on the Hebron attack, see Filastin al-Thawra, 6 March
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