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Israeli-Palestinian violence flared anew Friday, amid growing Arab frustration over what they see as the Bush administration's failure to restrain Ariel Sharon. Twelve Palestinians have been killed in clashes in Gaza since Thursday night, as gunmen have launched new attacks on Israeli soldiers and settlers there, and Israeli tanks invaded the Rafah refugee camp. Gaza had been relatively quiet over the past month as violence raged on the West Bank, but Palestinian leaders there may be inclined to take the initiative right now, which would stoke the regional political fires that first forced the Bush administration to intervene...
...interview with Tavis Smiley, aired on National Public Radio earlier this week, West remarked that “Larry Summers is the Ariel Sharon of American higher education.” He further expressed his concern that University President Lawrence H. Summers was “hanging out with the wrong crowd...
According to the soon-departed Fletcher University Professor Cornel R. West ’74, University President Lawrence H. Summers is like Ariel Sharon (News, “West Blasts Summers, Says Gates Likely To Go,” April 16). To complete the analogy, what does that make Prof. West? Yasser Arafat...
...because the Bush administration lacks a coherent policy on the conflict. Powell's summary of the situation upon his departure Wednesday was telling in its similarity to what it was when he arrived: There won't be a cease-fire until Israel withdraws its troops from Palestinian cities, but Ariel Sharon plans to do that soon; Yasser Arafat needs to do a lot more to rein in terrorism. Sharon had, in fact, indicated last weekend that his troops would withdraw from most West Bank cities except Ramallah and Bethlehem by the end of this week. But what the Israeli leader...
...However, I think Professor West probably used that as part of his…political leanings right now, and I don’t think the comparisons really work well—it could have been any bull in a china shop and not just Ariel Sharon,” Moore said...