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...November 27 editorial, "Demon's Humorless Antics," Justin C. Danilewitz faults a recent piece in Demon, written by Matthew A. Greenbaum '00, for its reference to "Schindler's List." Danilewitz writes that Greenbaum's fiction piece, which satirizes the Crimson Key Society at one point by showing the organization making jokes about "Schindler's List," is guilty of "question[ing]" the "tragedy" and "seriousness" of the Holocaust. Danilewitz goes so far as to say, "It is a sad testimonial to the legacy of our First Amendment that such material is considered to be imbued with enough expressive value...
...Danilewitz depicts the recent confrontations as an Intifadah II, occurring within the broader context of a desperately ailing peace process...
...recent violence in the occupied territories was solely caused by Israel's illegal opening of a tourist tunnel in occupied East Jerusalem is similar to attributing the death and destruction of the First World War to the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Serbia. Commentary in the U.S. media, Danilewitz's article included, has diverted the readers' attention from the fact that this tunnel violates both international law, which states that territory occupied by war cannot be changed by the occupier, and the Oslo agreements, which stipulate that changes in the Holy City must be suspended until its final status...
...Danilewitz and many others have the responsibility to mention the reprehensible conditions of Israeli occupation before drawing conclusions...
...these misrepresentations continue to be propagated, justice will never be part of the peace we make with promises. A just and durable peace must transcend this war of argumentation, biased generalizations and misleading and manipulative conclusions. We must transcend the limitations of the peace process, for which, as Danilewitz concludes, reality has set in, and pursue a durable settlement based on the shared principles of social equality, political justice, national dignity and individual respect. --Leila Suwwan de Felipe, '99 Waqaas Fahmawi, '99 Members, Harvard Society for Arab Students