Word: ariel
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...Israel attacks Iraq, only two people stand to benefit—Saddam Hussein and Ariel Sharon. Saddam needs allies, and bringing Israel into the fight would wrest Arab states from the U.S. coalition. Meanwhile, Sharon will welcome a wider Arab-Israeli war, for it would give him an excuse to increase his stranglehold on the Palestinian territories, and quite possibly, to expel thousands of Palestinians from the West Bank. Israel must not play into the hands of these two war criminals...
Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent announcement that he will strike back if Iraq attacks Israel marks a major shift in Israeli thinking since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has spoken out against the policy change, saying that it would be in Israel’s best interests not to get involved. But Israel is a sovereign nation; it unquestionably has the right to defend itself from an Iraqi strike...
Over the past year, his first as university president, Lawrence H. Summers, Harvard’s own “Ariel Sharon of higher education,” found a way to infuriate just about everyone. With the new school year barely a week old, Summers has acted again in what is now his signature style: commenting publicly on a taboo subject and inciting debate both on campus and across the country. Good for him. And in a move that is less likely to garner national headlines but may be just as important for Harvard undergraduates, Summers last weekend broke...
...anti-Semitism serves to deflect attention from the Israeli governmental actions that prompted the criticisms onto a debate about the morals and motives of the critics. We hope the petition will spark discussion of these issues in the Harvard community, and we invite supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s policies to join us in an open debate. An open exchange of ideas offers the best hope of progress toward a resolution of the conflict that respects the human rights of Palestinians and Israelis alike...
...there are some within the divestment campaign who are anti-Semitic—who are prejudiced against Jews—those represent only the barest minority of its members. Divestment is a political issue, one on which intelligent, open-minded people can disagree. Opposition to policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s government is no more an attack on the people of Israel, or on Jews in particular, than opposition to the Bush administration’s policies is an attack on the American people—and divestment is a way of expressing political dissatisfaction, albeit...