Word: harring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such, we will return to the Charles River and enjoy the rest of our spring. We wish you the best with yours. --Douglas Goodman '97, for the Harvard University Boat Club (Har- vard Heavyweights) Chris J. Sims '98, for the Harvard Varsity Lightweights
Levitin maintains that land in Jabal Abu Ghaneim (Har Homa's local, Arab name) has been allocated according to the Arab/Jewish population ratio in Jerusalem. He scoffs at notions of an attempt to "Judaize" (Levitin's term) the city. This is to ignore the fact that the current population ratio in Jerusalem is itself the result of a campaign of ethnically selective development, of which Jabal Abu Ghaneim is merely one of the latest fronts...
This is just the attempt to "Judaize" Jerusalem that Levitin derides. Elsewhere he is eminently clear on the fact, explaining that Har Homa is the final stage of an attempt to surround the city "with a ring of primarily Jewish neighborhoods." This cutting off of Jerusalem from surrounding Palestinian areas is precisely the kind of attempt to pre-empt the status of the city that the Oslo accords were framed to avoid. The status of the city is to be decided. Israel has already made its decision...
...inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." Despite Israel's obfuscatory claims that this does not mean all the territories, the absolute nature of the resolution is clear. International law denounces the Israeli annexation of East Jerusalem. Levitin's claim that it sanctions the building in Har Homa is simply bizarre...
Levitin claims that Hanan Ashrawi (not, incidentally, a "close confidante" of Arafat but a public denouncer of his despotism) is "bullying" Israel, inciting violence when she says that the Har Homa project undermines "not just peace with the Palestinians but peace in the entire region." This is not a threat. It is a statement of fact--one that Israel would do well to heed...