Word: arafats
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...support the Institute of Politics for inviting Arafat and Rabin this semester, thereby creating an extraordinary opportunity for campus dialogue. But we feel nervous about Arafat's leadership. We are doing business with a man who over the course of 35 years has been responsible for the deaths of many Jews. We are anxious for peace, but Arafat must assure the world that he can be trusted. We strongly support the efforts he has taken to curb terrorism...
However, in the past few months we have seen some of the worst terrorist attacks in Israel's history. Arafat must send an unambiguous message to his people that violent means cannot lead to peaceful ends. He must stop calling for "holy war" against Israel and the Jewish people. He must faithfully carry out his promise to eradicate the parts of the Palestinian National Covenant that call for Israel's destruction...
...Arafat's visit should give us pause. We stand at a crossroads; we all hope a brighter future awaits the Middle East. But this future will not come about by itself. It will take hard work by leaders like Arafat to undo a legacy of hate that has poisoned relations for the past few decades. We hope that he will work in good faith with Israel and with his people in order to secure a lasting and real peace to a region that so desperately needs it. --Ethan Tucker '97 Chair, Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel Yuval Segal '97 Dalia Trachtenberg...
...staff's attempt to pre-empt a possible Jewish protest against Yasser Arafat is wholly uncalled for. Was there any staff criticism of black students' interruption of Charles A. Murray '65's Bell Curve lecture, either before or after the fact? Or of the disruptions of antiabortion activists during presidential candidate Arlen Specter's political address last spring...
...Today, I come to you with a heart filled with love and peace now that the olive branch has adorned the peace of the brave." --Tonight's ARCO Forum Speaker Yasser Arafat, addressing a special session of the United Nations General Assembly on Sunday...