Word: ariel
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...ally on Capitol Hill. On April 3, long before Israel's diehard supporters in the Democratic Party had begun to wake up, DeLay visited Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri - site of Winston Churchill's "Iron Curtain " speech 56 years earlier - to give an impassioned defense of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's military offensive against the Palestinians. Yasir Arafat is "completely untrustworthy," DeLay thundered. Instead of trying to be a neutral broker in the deadly conflict, George Bush should "support Israel as they dismantle the Palestinian leadership that foments violence and fosters hate." DeLay sent White House aides a copy...
...Ariel Sharon has ended the first phase of his West Bank offensive, but its fallout will shake up the region for months to come - and imperil U.S. efforts to rekindle a peace process. Israel withdrew its tanks to the edge of more Palestinian towns Monday, although it maintained its sieges of Yasser Arafat's Ramallah compound and the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem. Israeli forces didn't fully leave the area; instead, they withdrew to self-declared buffer zones, from which they have continued to strike at will. But it's not only those ongoing operations that preclude...
...Colin Powell left Ariel Sharon's Jerusalem residence last Friday afternoon and announced that four hours of talks had failed to persuade the Israeli Prime Minister to halt his military offensive in the West Bank, a 20-year-old Palestinian woman named Andaleeb Taqatqa prepared to die. Her plan was to walk into the Mahane Yehuda market in downtown Jerusalem and blow herself up during rush hour as Israelis shopped for fruits and vegetables in preparation for the Sabbath. When she arrived at the crowded bazaar just after 4 p.m., Israeli police prevented her from entering. She walked down...
Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74 recently compared Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (and University President Lawrence H. Summers) to a bull in a china shop. This analogy, at one level, is grossly incorrect and unfair: the disputed territories in Israel do not remotely resemble a shop that sells china. China does not demand appeasement through coercive violence as Palestinian leader Yassir Arafat demands from Ariel Sharon...
...fact that this staff failed to completely quote West on several occasions in its editorial lends further credence to the irresponsible manner in which it voiced its opinion. In the first instance, a more complete version of West’s comparison of Summers to Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon should have read: “I think in one sense Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” While there is little doubt that West’s comparison of Summers to Sharon can be interpreted as inflammatory, note that West did attempt...