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...Israeli occupation of the Gaza strip is "wrong and stupid," an expert on the relationship of Jews to Israel said in a speech at the Harvard Hillel last night...
With this newfound importance, Fein said, Israel has the potential to be the unifying factor that has so long cluded the Jewish community. He said that Israeli officials must take care not to let issues like the Gaza strip work against that unity...
...present situation has evolved from the conflicting national aspirations of the Jews and the Palestinian Arabs. In 1947 the UN partition plan provided a homeland for the Palestinians. Unfortunately, Egypt and Jordan occupied Gaza and the West Bank until 1967. at which time Israel took over these territories and part of the reponsibility for finding a long-overdue homeland for the Palestinians. Yet no simple solution exists. While we cannot expect Palestinians to live in another Arab country, neither can we expect Israel to relinquish the occupied territories without guarantees of peace from its Arab neighbors. As responsible Jewish...
...things we're concerned about is the leaving out of relevant facts in the press," said Glen I. E. Schwaber '91, who drafted the flyers. Schwaber said extra information was needed to provide "context" for the news presentations of violent Israeli military action in the West Bank and Gaza strip...
...begin with Israel's "quandary of state-threatening proportions" as though that were the only factor in the current situation. So the deduction is easy: occupation threatens Israel's soul, so Israel should leave the West Bank and Gaza. That is easy enough to accept--but what happens once Israel has left? Ah, there is something else to think about in addition to Israel's internal dilemma: the refusal of a single Palestinian leader to renounce the desire for Israel's destruction. Arafat dances around: "Who will I negotiate with, ghosts? If I say now I recognize Israel, what will...