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The
effects of this vacuum are easy to discern. When Ted Koppel taped a Nightline
show at the East Jerusalem YMCA in the early days of this intifada, several
smartly dressed, attractive, young English speaking Arabs made sure they saved
a chair for then New York Times bureau chief, Deborah Sontag.
When Sontag arrived she was greeted with kisses by one of the young
women in the group. In contrast,
an older Israeli audience member who went over to introduce himself was given
a cursory nod by Sontag, absorbed in conversation with her chic Arab friends.