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...safer to travel to the slums of Detroit or the suburbs of Tel Aviv? How about the Indian side of Kashmir versus the posh campus of the American University of Beirut? According to Harvard’s Office of International Programs (OIP), students are free to visit the formers, but Israel and Lebanon are still...
...That diplomatic breakthrough could signal the end of three years of "cold peace" between the two countries. Egypt opposed the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, and following the massacre at the Sabra and Shatila Palestinian refugee camps in Beirut three months later, recalled its ambassador from Tel Aviv. Now, with the Israeli occupation of Lebanon in its final weeks, the Egyptians were ready for an improvement in relations...
...jets and helicopter gunships to bomb three Palestinian bases, including two refugee camps, outside Tripoli in northern Lebanon. Lebanese officials said 15 people were killed and 29 wounded. Some analysts suggested that the air raids came in response to recent bombings inside Israel, including attacks in two Tel Aviv suburbs; others viewed the Israeli strikes as a direct reprisal for the Tuesday car bombings. Israeli officials denied that the air attacks and the suicide bombings were linked...
Assistant Professor of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations Avi Matalon, who teaches Foreign Cultures 90 “Tel Aviv: Urban Culture in Another Zion,” says he tries to help seniors by exempting them from attending section...
...incarcerated 22 years ago for killing and wounding several Israelis. "If we have blood on our hands, so do the Israelis. But the war is over now." Abbas' moves to end four years of violence have put Israel's leaders in a forgiving mood, despite the recent Tel Aviv suicide bombing. But so far that doesn't extend to the inmates of Block 8. "These are the hard cases," says Colonel Ofer Lefler, an Israel Prison Service official. When Israel makes an occasional early release of prisoners involved in terrorism, 48% are later reconvicted of terror attacks, according...