Word: ashrawi
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...progress of the peace process in the Middle East has stalled, but Palestinians will be repatriated, Dr. Hanan M. Ashrawi, Palestinian minister of education, told a crowd of at least 400 in Sever Hall last night...
Levitin claims that Hanan Ashrawi (not, incidentally, a "close confidante" of Arafat but a public denouncer of his despotism) is "bullying" Israel, inciting violence when she says that the Har Homa project undermines "not just peace with the Palestinians but peace in the entire region." This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact--one that Israel would do well to heed...
Recent Palestinian propaganda statements have threatened violence in order to bully Israel into more concessions. Hanan Ashrawi, a Palestine National Committee member and close confidante of Yassir Arafat, has declared Har Homa to be the issue upon which regional peace rides: "If Israel continues these unilateral actions [in] Jerusalem...they are undermining not just peace with the Palestinians but peace in the entire region...
...reportage and propaganda that reaches us also glosses over the fact that not only did Palestinian leaders fail to discourage violent activity (Palestinian Cabinet Minister Hanan Ashrawi was even quoted in the Boston Globe as saying that "it would be impossible and irresponsible" to call on demonstrators to stop throwing stones and shooting at Israelis), but Palestinian police, who are supposed to be under the control of the civilian authority and thus at least nominally in the position of enforcing the peace, were also taking aim at Israeli soldiers. What can we make of that...
...executive committee in Tunis and 10 from the occupied territories. Arafat will be chairman, but the other members have not been selected, and Tunis is filled with job seekers. Arafat also needs to fold in the leaders who have emerged in the territories, people like Faisal Husseini and Hanan Ashrawi...