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Several professors said that criticism of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s policies does not amount to “singling out” Israel. Rather, the fact that the United States sends billions of dollars in aid to Israel each year “gives us not only the right but the moral duty to speak out,” Richard Wilson, the Mallinckrodt research professor of physics, wrote in an e-mail...
...Bliss professor of Latin American history and economics, noted in an e-mail that prominent Jews—including Albert Einstein and Hannah Arendt—made the same comparison to Nazism in 1948 when they denounced the Herut Party, the predecessor to current Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s Likud bloc...
Israel is trying to bolster Abbas without openly embracing him. In a speech to Likud activists last week, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon backed away from long-standing demands that, as a starting point for peace negotiations, Palestinian leaders disarm militant organizations. Instead, Sharon hinted, he is willing to resume talks with Arafat's successors if they reduce anti-Israeli "incitement" in the Palestinian media and schools. But both sides know the era of good feeling may last only until the next terrorist attack. While Abbas is trying to secure an agreement from Hamas and Islamic Jihad not to strike before...
Window Of Opportunity When British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw visited Ramallah last week to leave a wreath at Yasser Arafat's grave, many observers expected the government of Ariel Sharon to protest. But Israeli officials were resigned. "We snubbed officials who went to talk to Arafat when he was alive," sighed one. "We can't very well do that to those who want to talk to him when he's dead." That tempered response reflects a new mood of conciliation. With Palestinians preparing to vote on Jan. 9 for a new President, Israel last week signaled that it will allow...
...death, many despaired of the possibility of anyone taking them out of the slough in which they were stuck--harassed by Israeli soldiers, threatened by Israeli attacks, vulnerable to Palestinian gang rule and sinking into privation. Palestinians direct most of their outrage at Israel and the government of Ariel Sharon, but their current condition is also the product of a phenomenal failure of Palestinian leadership...