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...partly in response to mounting criticism over its failure to stop the region's slide into chaos. Bush's speech reflected the fierce debates within the administration over how to respond to the conflagration. He expressed sympathy with the goals of the Israeli operation, citing Israel's need to defend itself, but he called for its end on the grounds that it threatens to destroy the long-term prospects for peace. The President tore into Arafat for failing his people in refusing to stop terror attacks, but at the same time held out a carrot with strong calls for Palestinian...
...initiation of force as a means of obtaining a desired end, where force is the use or appropriation of an individual’s property without his consent. Initiation is the key term. If you are attacked, or if your life is in danger, you have the right to defend yourself, because you have a property right in yourself. The word coercion includes all forms of aggression, including rape, murder and military aggression, as well as many things (for example, pickpocketing or theft) that do not involve an overtly violent act. That is, “coercive?...
...Scholars-at-Risk Fellowship Program, will bring one “at-risk” scholar annually to Harvard and will be administered locally by the University Committee on Human Rights Studies (UCHRS). The fellowship will also be part of a larger national initiative to promote academic freedom and defend human rights...
Israel has every right to defend itself against suicide bombers who mercilessly target civilians, but it must also acknowledge its role in jeopardizing any chance of peace. Attacks on refugee camps in the occupied territories engender hatred from the Palestinians, which is as likely to foster terrorism as it is to prevent it. The cooperation of the Palestinian mainstream is essential to the peace process. In the short term, the Palestinian people have the greatest influence over Arafat, and in the long term, they are potential recruits for terrorist organizations...
...question, then, is this: should Israel hold a largely innocent citizenry responsible for the crimes (and terrorist complicity) of its government? In other words, does Israel have the right to launch military incursions into Palestinian territory in order to defend itself? Israel does not have a choice; it is dealing with a government that publicly denounces terror but privately encourages and praises it, a government that publicly arrests militants but clandestinely releases them, a government that claims to want peace and yet organizes violent uprisings to upset the peace process, a government which uses every means at its disposal...