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...University revealed that it had spent the previous decade secretly buying more than 50 acres of land in Allston, just beyond the campus of the Harvard Business School...
...company over its plans to run a six-mile high-pressure gas pipeline through his neighborhood. The pipe would connect the massive Corrib gas field, 50 miles out to sea, to a 400-acre refinery being built in nearby Ballinaboy. When Shell's surveyors first showed up on his land in 2000, Corduff showed them the gate. By the time they returned in June 2005, armed with a compulsory purchase order, a court injunction and police guards, Corduff and his neighbors had become seasoned campaigners as versed in the legalities of public planning and in the environmental hazards posed...
...value education, and they laugh at the same jokes. But in conversation with Omar, I realize that Jews and Arabs are fatally alike in another way: they both suffer from a powerful and justifiable sense of victimization--the Jews over the Holocaust, the Palestinians over the loss of their land--and this blinds them to the others' tragedy...
...photo of Arafat shaking hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin; he thinks Arafat gave away too much to the Israelis, as do many Palestinians still holding keys to their families' old houses. (Israel has never accepted that all Palestinian refugees have the right of return to their former land, since such a right would constitute an existential threat: if all Palestinians returned to what is now Israel, Jews would soon be a minority in their own state.) Was there ever a moment when Omar thought peace was attainable? "Never," he says flatly...
...want peace with the Jews," says Omar, "but we want to go back to our land." It's the same thought his uncle had in 1967, listening to Egyptian radio, and it has as much chance of happening now as it did then. Forty years after their great disappointment, those who live in the Jalazon refugee camp know that it may be the only home that they, their children and their grandchildren ever know. [This article contains a complex diagram. Please see hardcopy of magazine...