Word: golan
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...David E. Golan ’75, dean for graduate education at HMS, finds that taking such an approach gets local practitioners and researchers more invested in the project, and also allows for easier communication among them. Harvard-affiliated physicians will be brought in to teach, but any medical program that is eventually offered will be based around University Hospital rather than HMS. However, many of these programs are still only in the planning stage...
...There’s a long way to go between where they are now and a true academic medical center,” says Golan. “But this is the ultimate vision...
...final year in office negotiating indirectly with Syria and directly with Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. Lieberman rejected the Bush Administration's Annapolis peace initiative, under which Olmert and Abbas had talked about the parameters of a Palestinian state. And he insisted that Israel would never withdraw from the Golan Heights, captured from Syria in 1967. "Whoever thinks that he will achieve something by way of concessions - no, he will only invite more pressure and more wars," Lieberman said. "If you want peace, prepare for war." (See pictures from Israel's recent war in Gaza...
...Publicly, Netanyahu continues to take a firm stance, rejecting the idea of an Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights in order to achieve peace with Syria. Lieberman talks only of "peace for peace," rather than land for peace. But Netanyahu knows that no peace deal is possible without returning the Syrian territory captured in the war of 1967, and he may be ready to find a formula for its return if Syria is truly ready for a peace deal. Syrian President Assad, having established firm control of the often opaque regime he inherited from his late father Hafez al-Assad...
...Israel balks at negotiating peace based on withdrawal from the Golan, there could very well be another war on its northern border. Unable to get what it needs by talking, Syria might be tempted to roll the dice and see what it can achieve by fighting. If so, it would be betting that just as the Jewish state wound up with egg on its face after wars in Lebanon in 2006 and Gaza in 2009, Israel's political position would be further weakened by another war, even if the Syrian military is no match for Israel's in a head...