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Netanyahu's stated agenda would put him at odds with the new Obama Administration in Washington. While Barack Obama has called for negotiations with Iran and Syria, Netanyahu would choose confrontation with both. Netanyahu is against trading the Golan Heights - which Israel captured from Syria in 1967 - in return for a peace treaty with Syria. And instead of talking to Iran about its nuclear program (which Iran insists is for civilian purposes), Netanyahu has said he will prevent Iran from building nuclear weapons by any means necessary, including military strikes...
...government might be willing to make peace with the Palestinians and various Arab neighbors. Netanyahu and Lieberman are pushing for the expansion of Jewish settlements in the West Bank, which Palestinians say is a main obstacle to peace, and they are adamant that Israel should hang on to the Golan Heights, which was seized from Syria in the 1967 war. Netanyahu and Lieberman also say the army ought to return to Gaza and wipe out Hamas. During the campaign, Netanyahu said, "There will be no alternative but to bring down the regime of Hamas, a terrorist organization pledged...
...Israel preemptively attacked Egypt, Jordan and Syria, and occupied the West Bank and Gaza, largely populated by refugees of 1948, as well as East Jerusalem, the Golan Heights and Sinai (later returned to Egypt). This generated another approximately 200,000 Palestinian refugees who were also forbidden to return. Since 1973, Israeli governments have gradually moved about 400,000 Jewish settlers into the West Bank and another 200,000 into East Jerusalem, appropriating about 50 percent of the land (when roads and other infrastructure are taken into account), taking over the water, and alternately exploiting and starving the West Bank...
Harvard Medical School professor David E. Golan ’75 was named the school’s first dean for graduate education, Medical School Dean Jeffrey S. Flier announced last Thursday. The new post is the latest development in the school’s strategic planning process and follows the appointment of Thomas Michel ’77 as the new dean for education this June. Previously, only one dean was responsible for all education programs at the Medical School. Golan and Michel will now join Dean for Medical Education Jules L. Dienstag to start implementing recommendations proposed...
...times, the speakers were unsure of their candidates’ stances on certain issues and were hesitant to put words in their nominees’ mouths. When asked by an audience member about the Golan Heights—a piece of land disputed by Israel and Syria—Healey declined to answer...