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...means of presenting alternative viewpoints, Springer brought Taysir Aruri to campus to speak earlier this year. Aruri, a Palestinain lecturer of physics at Bir Zeit University on the West Bank, was deported without a public hearing. The Progressive Jewish Alliance also participated in a petition drive to protest the closing of Palestinian universities in the occupied territories. And Springer helped bring to Harvard a representative from Yesh G'vul, a group of Israeli soldiers who refuse to serve in the occupied territories...
Both parties, Aruri said, would benefit from the continued employment of 110,000 Palestinian workers in Israel and the joint management of scarce water supplies...
...Aruri said the guerrilla movement has also transformed the once profitable Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip into a major economic burden and created real borders between Israel and the territories...
...under a successful peace settlement, the independent Palestinian state would retain economic, political and diplomatic ties with Israel, Aruri said...
...Aruri was deported from the West Bank by Israeli authorities in August, 1989, and is in the United States on a tour sponsored by the human rights organization Amnesty International...