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...Minister Ariel Sharon’s recent announcement that he will strike back if Iraq attacks Israel marks a major shift in Israeli thinking since the 1991 Persian Gulf War. Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld has spoken out against the policy change, saying that it would be in Israel??s best interests not to get involved. But Israel is a sovereign nation; it unquestionably has the right to defend itself from an Iraqi strike...
...prime minister’s position reflects a widespread belief among Israelis that Arab leaders perceived Israel??s restraint in 1991 as a weakness that undermined its ability to prevent enemy strikes. Saddam attacked Israel precisely because he knew it would not fight back. Miraculously, the Scuds that hit Tel Aviv directly killed only two Israelis, but Israel cannot depend on luck again—not when there are growing suspicions that Israel will be Saddam’s first target with his developing stockpile of biological and chemical weapons...
Dershowitz challenged Hanson, who signed a petition last spring advocating that the University protest Israel??s treatment of the Palestinians by divesting, to debate divestment in an Op-Ed in the Crimson yesterday...
...outrageous to dismiss the argument as “anti-Semitic.” Financial support from the American government, private Americans both Jewish and Christian, the American armaments industry and American Jewish “settlers” of the West Bank have all enabled Israel??s defiant persistence with policies such as the bulldozing of Palestinian villages, closing off water supplies, denial of internationally established human rights and aggressive, escalating retaliation. Our whole world pays a devastating price (because of Islamic extremists’ rhetoric about the American-Israeli alliance) for Israel??s failure...
...which is a dangerous threat that must be fought vigorously. But we have seen no evidence for the link he proposes between this worldwide trend and the students and faculty who support divestment at Harvard. Summers presented no evidence beyond the misguided assumption that anything opposed to Israel??s policies is anti-Semitic...