Word: arafats
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Peres needed to take these steps for reasons of national security. Yasir Arafat cannot alone implement a crackdown of the necessary scale and it would be unfair to expect him to be able to. With nothing more than a beefed up municipal police force, he can hardly carry out what is in effect a military operation...
...editorial should remind us all that Hamas has been tolerated as a "mass" movement for a long time. Only a small sector of the Palestinian population carries out these bombings and condemnations of such acts have come quickly from Arafat, Palestinian intellectuals and student leaders on our own campus...
...thing, however, to condemn an act. It is quite another to disown an ideology. Peres is correct to forestall Israeli withdrawal from Hebron until the Palestinian National Covenant is amended. Though the Covenant is symbolic, it is an important symbol. If Arafat and other Palestinian leaders do not have the courage to expunge that record of hate from their past, they surely will not have the nerve to push on for peace in the months ahead...
...dispatched a planeload of bomb detection equipment and experts to Israel Tuesday, showing his commitment to preserving the Mideast peace process. Officials would not reveal the contents of the shipment other than to say it included communications equipment aimed at helping Israel coordinate its anti-terrorist efforts with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. "Clinton wants very badly to support the peace process, but the question is what can he do," TIME's J.F.O. McAllister says. "Much like the Patriot missiles in the Gulf War, this equipment will help make Israel more secure ." However, the effectiveness of this initiative remains...
...Arafat must control Hamas and other fundamentalist groups responsible for terror; Peres must be more stern and severe with the issue of terrorist attacks. Politicians must deal with such events differently: not for the span of a few weeks when they occur, but on a more rigorous and continual basis. These bombings have turned into a sick pattern of events--the pattern must be broken. --Yuval Segal '97 --Dalia Trachtenberg '96 Co-chairs, Harvard Students for Israel