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...documented the “Origins of the Palestine Refugee Problem.” During military operations in 1947 and 1948 against Palestinian resisters and Arab invading armies trying ineffectually to prevent the creation of a Jewish state, Jewish regular and irregular forces, sometimes using carefully calibrated terror tactics, drove somewhere between 600,000 and 800,000 Palestinian men, women and children from their villages, which they then leveled. After the war, they used force to prevent any of them from returning. Then the new state summarily confiscated their land and property for redistribution to Jews. The remaining Arab population...
...forward Jack Eggleston had a game-high 19 points for the visitors and freshman guard Zach Rosen had 15 and nine assists for Penn as the Quakers took a huge game between teams hoping for the Ivy League crown. With the game knotted up 56-56, Rosen faked and drove to the hoop to draw a foul from Lin. Rosen hit both shots and his Harvard counterpart, Oliver McNally, had a tough jumper barely rim out, which Penn forward Cameron Lewis tied up for a jump-ball with the possession arrow in his team’s favor. After...
...other three baskets came in the last three minutes as he tried to keep it close. He answered Tiger guard Dan Mavraides’ three that put the visitors up six with his own big three, making it 66-63 with 2:13 left. He drove for hoops with 23 and 13 seconds left and his team down six both times, though on the second, he missed the and-one attempt...
...With the game knotted up 56-56, Rosen faked and drove to the hoop to draw a foul from Lin. Rosen hit both shots and on the other side, his counterpart, freshman guard Oliver McNally had a tough jumper barely rim out, which Penn forward Cameron Lewis tied up for a jump-ball with the possession arrow to his team...
...then Nkunda's advancing forces executed 50 to 100 young men on Nov. 5, thousands of refugees converged on a MONUC base, spooked by rumors of a Mai Mai counterattack. On their heads and wooden bicycles they carried mattresses, sacks of potatoes, children. The Indian soldiers at the base drove two armored personnel carriers 300 ft. (90 m) outside. They kept 30 more carriers, tanks, jeeps and trucks in neat lines behind the razor wire and limited their interaction with the crowd to shooing them off an adjacent helipad. The refugees built tents of sticks and rags in front...