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Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '99, president of theHarvard-Radcliffe Society of Arab Students, is aPalestinian refugee whose family has lived inJordan since the 40s, initially in a refugee camp."The movie should have paid more attention to why[the terrorists] are doing this," he says, and"should have focused more attention on thesubhuman living conditions in the camps, the feelof injustice and disappointment...You have to godown to the roots of the problem...
...home page of Mohamad M. Al-Ississ '00. While most home pages talk about the student and his or her friends, this page has some real content to it. A list of not only the typical stuff (information about self, friends, classes, etc.) but information on the Arab world and a plethora of links to it. There are even links to Arabic radio and Real Audio sites...
...comes across in Western media as barbaric outbursts of terrorism, when in fact they are tragic reactions to the systematic violence that has been inflicted upon Palestinians from the inception of the colonial state of Israel in 1948 to the present. This foundational injustice must never be forgotten. Mohammad Al-Ississ '99, Amahl Bishara '98, Waqaas Fahmawi '99, Society of Arab Students
Tadros and Al-Ississ describe the Palestinian riots of last week as follows: "55 Palestinians and 11 Israeli-Jews were killed during clashes between Palestinian civilians and certain elements of the Palestinian police on one side and the Israeli army on the other." The description itself is an egregious error of reporting, neglecting completely the point that the "certain elements of the Palestinian police" fired live ammunition at Israeli soldiers who were guarding their own checkpoints, when the Israelis had not fired on them. In some cases, Palestinian police roamed with the armed Palestinian mobs and shot into Israeli neighborhoods...
...distortion of information by Tadros and Al-Ississ is of the same sort that led to last week's Palestinian riots in Israel. Whether in the West Bank or at Harvard, people need to be certain of their facts before they speak. There is, tragically, no room today for error in discussions about Israel...