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...said that a law professor should not openly advocate crimes,” said Sam Foster Halabi, a second-year law student and President of Justice for Palestine. “As I read this action, it has nothing to do with Dershowitz’s private opinion, it has to do with the fact that we have a lawyer advocating collective punishment...
...crown prince. The two eldest, ABDULLAH and FEISAL, are considered unqualified because their mother is British. The next son, ALI, was the favorite, but he has fallen out of favor because of his playboy life-style. Next come HAMZAH and HASHEM, the sons of Hussein's current wife, LISA HALABI, known as Queen Noor, who comes from a Lebanese-American family. Lately, Hussein has been grooming Hamzah. The 18-year-old frequently accompanies his father to official functions, and he is being taught how to speak the slang of the Bedouin tribes, an important constituency for the Hashemite dynasty...
...more than a reluctant Soviet suitor. For two years after the treaty's signing, Assad mysteriously failed to reappoint a Syrian Ambassador to Moscow. Following Israel's crushing victories last summer, however, Assad's room for maneuver shrank. Two months ago, Syrian Ambassador Muhammad Ah' Halabi presented his credentials in Moscow. Despite the dramatic increase in Soviet military aid to Syria, foreign analysts are leery of attaching too much importance to the relationship. Says a Western diplomat in Damascus: "Right now this is a very happy marriage of convenience...
...HALABI CRITICIZES the government's strategy on three counts, First it is too often cruel and unjust. Second, it has made Israel into a repressive occupying power, and this new identity has damaged the moral framework of Israeli society, Finally, Israeli's policy has worked against its own greatest interest, the establishment of peace...
...behavior of the Israeli government that Halabi discusses has been described by other journalists. And his criticisms of Israel's actions have also been voiced by other writers in Israel and the United States What makes Halabi's book important reading is its combination of a passionate concern for the resolution of the West Bank conflict, and an unusual ability to see the situation from both sides Halabi confesses that he concentrates on exposing the "seamier side" of the Israeli occupation of the West Bank But he also points out the beneficial economic and social effects the occupation...