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...party is shifting between tough-guy talk and moderation-a balancing act similar to the one practiced by Sinn Fein in Northern Ireland and by Hezbollah in neighboring Lebanon. As it gains power, Hamas may come under pressure from Europe and the U.S to open talks with Israel- which senior Hamas officials last week said they would consider. But negotiating a settlement that recognizes Israel's right to exist would also force Hamas to renounce the ideology on which it was founded. "Sometimes they must pray that they don't win a majority and have to become responsible," says...
...what to do, everything was organized by students.”Four students will leave tomorrow for Qatar, the first stop in the 18-day trip, and four more students will join them in Dubai next week. The group will visit nine Middle Eastern countries, including Kuwait, Israel, and Lebanon, before returning to Harvard on Feb. 5.Many of the destinations included in the itinerary, including the West Bank and Lebanon, were recently removed from the list of areas where Harvard-sponsored travel is prohibited.The students will visit schools in each country to talk with high school students and college counselors...
Israel's most divisive war is often laid at Sharon's feet: the invasion of Lebanon in 1982, which he planned as Minister of Defense. One objective, running the P.L.O. out of Lebanon, was largely achieved, but the scheme to install in power the leader of the Lebanese Phalangist militia, a Christian group friendly to Israel, was a debacle. After Phalangist forces massacred as many as 800 men, women and children at the Palestinian refugee camps Sabra and Shatila, an Israeli inquiry concluded that Sharon bore "indirect" responsibility, forcing him to resign as Defense Minister. Sharon sued TIME...
After years of political probation following the Lebanon war, it was, ironically, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat who gave Sharon his final big break. At peace talks in the summer of 2000, Labor Prime Minister Ehud Barak offered Arafat a Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and the bulk of the West Bank, including some part of East Jerusalem. Arafat refused the deal. Presumably to protest Barak's offer to divide Jerusalem, Sharon, accompanied by dozens of Israeli police, took the unusual step of visiting what Jews call the Temple Mount, the plateau that today hosts al-Aqsa Mosque...
...Defense Minister, Sharon, with his wife Lily, visit troops at the army's northern headquarters two days after the start of the Lebanon...