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Finkelstein has tacitly condoned attacks against Israeli civilians by explicitly equating Palestinian terrorist attacks against civilians with Israeli operations against militants. He spent much of last week’s discussion praising the terrorist group Hezbollah, which triggered this summer’s war with a deadly raid across an internationally recognized border into Israel, and which, prior to Sept. 11th, had killed the most Americans of any terrorist group in the Middle East. And, regarding 9/11, Finkelstein has said, "We deserve the problem on our hands because some things Bin Laden says are true...
Following the postponement of an summer trip to Israel this July due to the country’s war with Hezbollah militants, 28 undergraduates will finally board a plane for Israel today. Students participating in the Harvard Israel Leadership Initiative, a 12-day traveling study seminar, will have the chance to “explore the challenges that face Israel” today as well as connect with local communities, according to Michael Simon, Associate Director of the Harvard Hillel. The ten students who were orginally slated to arrive in Israel on July 30 were notified less than a week...
...Unfortunately, instead of quenching the crisis, the tribunal will most likely produce the exact opposite effect. A couple of weeks ago, the Hezbollah and Amal members of the Lebanese cabinet quit their posts in an act—many suspect—of protest against the government’s approval of a UN draft setting up the aforementioned international tribunal...
...West’s strategy to deal with the crisis has had a debilitating effect on the country’s national dialogue: issuing warnings against Hezbollah, condemning those who associate with them, and abstaining from involving itself in any solution. It does not take a Middle East expert to realize that this policy—the mirror image of how Syria and Iran are pushing Hezbollah to demonize their rivals—is not a strategy of reconciliation...
...Israeli counselor for Middle Eastern affairs defended Israel’s actions during this summer’s conflict with Hezbollah at a Harvard Students for Israel event yesterday. Eynat Shlein-Michael, the counselor, who is based in Israel’s Washington D.C. embassy said that Israel was not fighting a “war” against Lebanon but was engaged in a “conflict” with the non-state terror organization Hezbollah. “We chose not to fight Lebanon. Hezbollah is our enemy,” she said. Shlein-Michael said...