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...Lieberman has long espoused the notion that Israel’s Palestinian citizens are a demographic and strategic threat. We are the ones who remained on our land when roughly 700,000 Palestinians were expelled by the new state of Israel in 1948. We comprise nearly 20 percent of Israel’s population. Yet Lieberman—an immigrant from Moldova—would have us stripped of our second-class citizenship in a land swap with a future Palestinian state—a state whose very existence Netanyahu has yet to accept...
...spear point” of the Palestinian struggle and that this would require changes in the rules of the “democratic game” to guarantee the “Jewishness” of the state. He also expressed support for a land swap that would strip Palestinians inside Israel of their citizenship because it makes “demographic sense...
...Irish guys. From that perspective I consider myself to be an Irish musician.” When choosing colleges, “I knew I wanted to have an Irish scene nearby,” he says. After graduation, Gurney plans to live in Ireland to experience the land which informed the music he loves. “I want to learn how to help traditional music move forward without messing with what made it a tradition in the first place,” he says. As a co-founder of the Harvard College American Music Association, Gurney has worked...
...students at the event said they were more interested in Yoon’s positions—such as a promise to bring more transparency to Boston government—than his ethnicity. Yoon said he had been prompted to run for the council during an effort to secure land for low-income housing in Chinatown. “I asked myself, ‘what if there had been just one Asian at City Hall or in the State House?’” Yoon said. During his speech, Yoon yielded the floor to Harvard students representing...
...terrorism, they allowed Hamas to hold rallies and appear on television, even as they banned the PLO. So if Hamas, in Israel's view, was moderate once, could it moderate itself again? The group's founding charter - which brims with anti-Semitism and rules out conceding any historically Palestinian land - doesn't exactly fill one with hope. On the other hand, Hamas' leader in Damascus, Khaled Mashaal, declared a couple of years ago, "I speak of a Palestinian and Arab demand for a state on 1967 borders. It is true that in reality there will be an entity...