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...however, criticize the Israeli government, and that was enough to make me a brother of suicide bombers. Never mind that I had praised Israeli human rights groups for their work in Israel and America. Never mind that I limited my criticism to Ariel Sharon and his apartheid policies and not to the Israeli state as a whole. The fact that I would dare criticize Sharon (a man whom many Israelis also consider a war criminal) means that I must be anti-Israel. As Professor Ruth R. Wisse stated in her eloquent, yet twisted and xenophobic Crimson op-ed, Israel...
...Princeton Professor of International Law Richard Falk, it got significantly worse. Last June, Falk appeared on a BBC episode of “Panorama” that explored the role of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon in the 1982 Sabra and Chatila massacre. Falk, who is Jewish and who was a part of the international commission that investigated Sharon’s involvement in the massacre, stated that he had “no doubt whatsoever” that Sharon is indictable as a war criminal. Over the course of the next few weeks, the phone calls and hate mail...
...Crown Prince Abdullah tells the New York Times that he has a speech in his desk drawer promising normalization with Israel if it returns to its 1967 borders. He would love to give the speech, he avers, but he cannot because of the beastly actions of Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon...
MIDDLE EAST A Roundabout Route to Peace Violence spiraled further, with a series of devastating air strikes and raids by Israel and shootings and bombings from Palestinians. Dozens died last Friday, the bloodiest day since the intifadeh began. As casualties mounted, Prime Minister Ariel Sharon conceded that cease-fire negotiations would have to take place without the seven-day period of total calm that he had demanded. The U.S. said that envoy Anthony Zinni would return to the region this week for another attempt at brokering peace...
...Ariel Z. Weisbard...