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...stock tips. What they are hunting for is companies that do substantial business with Israel. Students sympathetic to the Palestinian cause have been circulating a petition around the Austin campus since July, calling on the university to sell off the stock of those firms. "You hear President Bush calling Ariel Sharon a man of peace," says Andy Gallagher, a member of Students for Justice in Palestine. "Then you start looking at the facts, and it plays on your soul...
Four hours after the Tel Aviv attack, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon met with Defense Minister Binyamin Ben-Eliezer and senior military and intelligence officials. Sharon argued, as he has before, that Arafat should be forced into exile. But Ben-Eliezer and most of the other officials spoke against exile, believing it would give Arafat new life and a ready excuse for his inability--or refusal, as Israelis see it--to rein in militants. At 6:30 p.m. Sharon convened a meeting of his Cabinet and announced a plan to isolate his old enemy but not exile or kill...
...Hasan in his letter (“Israeli Retaliation Could Light Mideast Fuse,” Sept. 25). He claims to recognize the right of Israel to defend itself, but goes on to unilaterally characterize this reaction as a bad one. Hasan seems to think that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has nothing better to do with his time than persecute Palestinians, and that he focuses every bit of policy upon this goal...
...doubt the sincerity of this claim, although I cannot help but be bewildered by the Manichean world-view some display. It seems that some of the signers believe that one can only be a supporter of divestment or a supporter of the government of Israeli Prime Minster Ariel Sharon. This belief is apparent in Professor of Psychology Elizabeth Spelke’s and Pierce Professor of Psychology Ken Nakayama’s invitation “to the supporters of Sharon’s policies to join us in an open debate.” They argue...
...Israel defied U.S. criticism and a U.N. resolution calling for an immediate end to its siege of Yasser Arafat's compound in Ramallah. Israeli officials insisted that Arafat first had to hand over 50 alleged militants holed up with him in his half-ruined office building. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon said the men with Arafat were "the biggest terrorists that exist." Meanwhile, at least 18 Palestinians (including a 14-month-old girl) and two Israelis died in clashes across the occupied territories. INDIA Blood On The Temple Floor Indian army commandos stormed a Hindu temple at dawn, killing...