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...peace, and that no Jew wants war. “I think it is ludicrous to say that there are no Israelis who want to attack Arabs when there has been an occupation for 38 years,” responded Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon. Matalon said that Israel is fighting a war on two fronts, both against the Palestinians and against those Israelis who refuse to see the world in realistic terms. To him, radical Israelis inhabit the same ideological side as the Islamic fundamentalists. “The danger now is if we?...
...Americans] have the power to make an influence from here to there in your own quiet way. Thank you for the help that you have given and for the help that you are going to give to Israel,” said The Fools between songs. Avi Poupko, Harvard Hillel campus Rabbi and Rabbinic Advisor to the Orthodox Minyan said, “The band’s name is based on an ancient Jewish teaching that states that the mind can sometimes get in the way of prophecy. At Harvard, where the mind is so important, we sometimes forget...
...Israeli army, a uniformed man equipped with an M-16 rifle. On Jan. 1 he put it to use, kneeling down in front of Hebron's outdoor vegetable market, then opening fire on vendors and shoppers as close as within 15 ft. In just seconds, an alert army lieutenant, Avi Buskila, jumped him and, with the help of two other soldiers, snatched his rifle and jerked him away. Because of Buskila's quick action and perhaps Friedman's poor shooting, the harm was less than it could have been. Friedman got off 20 rounds, wounding six people but killing none...
Late Monday afternoon, the first day of the disengagement from Gaza, Avi Firouz sat on the staircase of his home in Dugit waiting for an army truck to take him, his son Eden and the last of his belongings to his new home in Netiv Ha'asara, a seven minute ride away. It would be his last journey from his home to the house he will rent in the Israeli village just across the border. He will no longer be allowed back into the Gaza Strip...
...Although he moved there at the time of the Oslo accords, when peace with the Palestinians seemed closer than ever, Avi never imagined that Dugit would be evacuated. Located so close to the Israeli border, these northern Gaza settlers were sure their villages would remain in Israeli hands. "It was Yitzhak Rabin (then Defense Minister) who gave the approval to establish Dugit," says Firouz. "He promised it would never be evacuated...