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Only a few hours before he took the job, Iraqi Scud missiles had struck the cities of Tel Aviv and Haifa, inflicting only limited damage, but striking renewed fear into the hearts of many Israelis...
...forces massed against it continue to stare each other down, the Israelis have their own worst-case scenario: cornered and desperate, Saddam Hussein launches dozens of missiles at Israel, followed by jet fighters bristling with chemical bombs. Some penetrate Israel's defenses and rain death on Tel Aviv and Haifa. ^ Saddam is hailed -- albeit posthumously -- as a hero of the Arab masses...
...over oil, but in the near future, water could be the catalyst for armed conflict. Israel and Jordan, Egypt and Ethiopia, and India and Bangladesh are but a few of the neighboring nations at odds over rivers and lakes. Warns Arnon Sofer, professor of geography at Israel's Haifa University: "Wars over water might erupt in the Middle East in the '90s when states try to control each other's supplies...
During the summer, Springer's mother visited his Arab family. "She was very hesitant," he recalls. "We sat down and my host talked about how they were kicked out of Haifa. She hard for her to hear those things. She never really spent any time with Palestinians even though she grew up there...
Fein complains that Chomsky and Benjamin Beit-Hallahmi of Haifa University were not addressing their "area of expertise." What are Chomsky, a linguistics professor, and Beit-Hallahmi, a psychologist, doing talking about foreign affairs? This ad hominem reasoning would disqualify many of the leading critics of the Vietnam War, including Chomsky, and, for that matter, many leading supporters of Israel. Beit-Hallahmi, who appeared on WBGH's "Public Television Evening News" as an expert (along with Harvard's Nadav Safran), has written and lectured extensively on Israel's odious ties with South Africa...