Word: halaby
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...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...
Reading The West Bank Story, we follow Halabi and his camera crew as they criss-cross the region. In Ramallah, thousands of angry demonstrators carrying Palestinian flags surge down the main street protesting the Israeli occupation. When a patrol of Israeli soldiers arrives, it is greeted by a barricade of flaming tires and a barrage of stones In Hebron. Jews from a nearby settlement roam the streets, machine guns in hand, smashing the glass from Arab cars and shop fronts In Nablus, Israeli bulldozers demolish 20 Arab houses in retaliation for a bomb blast at a Jewish shop. In Elon...
...many observers, the radicalization of the West Bank was the inevitable result of events external to Israel and the occupied territories. Primarily the increasing acceptance of the PLO by the international community and the violent rift between the PLO and Hussein But many others, including Halabi, assign a major share of the responsibility for the PLO's increased control to the Israeli government Not by design, but through shortsightedness, arrogance and insensitivity the Israeli military administration has alienated and undermined the effectiveness of moderates in the West Bank, leaving the PLO without competition for the people's loyalty This...
...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...