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...oldest continuing international intercollegiate competition, dating back to 1894. The location alternates for each meet, and this year it will be held in England. On both sides, traditional rivals come together as teammates in a historic U.S. versus UK meet. This June, the teams will compete to claim the Naughton Trophy, won by Harvard-Yale in the most recent competition...
Whether one believes it, the claim is controversial and dubious and has little to do with the current events in Balata and what the children actually know from their experiences; the assertion conveys a political message imposed by others. Hadil concluded by claiming triumphantly that “the Zionists shall be chased out of our land,” the same rhetoric used when planning the massacre of the Jews and the destruction of Israel...
...addition to this unacceptable form of emotional persuasion, the Picture Balata presentation contained factual errors. These were not merely “interpretive” differences; several of the statements were either clearly untrue or dubious. One such questionable statement was made in the introduction which claimed that “soldiers invade the camp four to five nights a week.” The 25,000 residents of Balata, a community established nearly 60 years ago, do not live in the desolate “camp” implied by the children. In actuality, they live in concrete...
Finally, Hadil, only 15, told the story of the Palestinian “exile” from Israel in 1948. She claimed that the Palestinians were simply sitting in their homes peacefully when the “Zionists came into the land” and “killed and destroyed” until the people “got scared and fled.” Her comments suggest that there was suddenly a mass forced exile and murder of Muslim civilians by the new state of Israel, but this claim is historically false...
...point, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina gently suggested that the firings may have actually been the result of general personality and ideological conflicts rather than the performance issues that the Justice Department has pointed to, but Gonzales rejected that claim. "Why is your story changing?" a clearly frustrated Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa asked after lunch, referring to the fact that the Attorney General now accepts responsibility for the firings...