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After years of saying that he had given up terrorism and was seeking peace with the Jewish state, Yasser Arafat has proven that he is still a terrorist. Documents that the Israeli army has seized in Palestinian Authority (PA) offices in Ramallah and elsewhere show that Arafat had personal involvement in supporting and directing attacks against innocent Israelis during the course of the current war. The New York Times reported that documents seized by the Israeli army had Arafat’s signature approving payments to militants who are know to have been involved with terrorist attacks. The documents show...
...composition, its report is likely to be very critical of Israel. The U.N. has an abysmal record of impartiality when it comes to Israel, and the planned mission is likely to be another attempt by Arab nations to hijack the U.N. in their continued efforts to delegitimize the Jewish state...
...percent of the Israeli population living in the West Bank and that a security buffer zone be established in the Jordan Valley. The Israeli cabinet has already given instructions for construction on a fence to start. Although such a barrier is anathema to some Israelis because it excludes many Jewish communities which have grown up in the West Bank, it will protect Israel from a continued terrorist assault. Israel must also protect its citizens in those West Bank settlements that a fence cannot encompass. Only by showing the terrorists that Israel will not give in under fire will the Israelis...
...post-1945 era's most influential European books. All this has had an effect. It was easy for Europeans to be on the side of Israel when, as in 1967 and 1973, it seemed to be fighting a defensive war against those who wished to eliminate the Jewish state. But as Jewish settlements grew in the West Bank, Europeans became uneasy. Israel seemed to be adopting a policy of colonization that to modern European eyes was not just morally reprehensible but also bound to end in tears...
Summers can learn from the experience of Jews at Harvard. For centuries, Jews had no place as students, faculty, administrators or members of the Corporation. Harvard only ended its discrimination against Jews within the past century and already there is a very large number of Jewish professors and students, Jewish studies classes, a Hillel building that allows for Jewish communal activities and even a Jewish president. It is time that Harvard give the same rights to other groups that have suffered discimination—including women, Latinos, African-Americans, Asians, and members of the bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender community?...