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...homeland.“My friends who stayed in Israel can criticize or support Israeli policy, but they do it from inside of Israel, so their ability to see the other side is restricted,” Massasa says. “At Harvard, I met people from Lebanon and Jordan. Sometimes it was awkward, but it opened up a lot of possibilities for conversation that I didn’t have in Israel.”Mohammed J. Herzallah ’07, originally from Ramallah, West Bank, says while he has Israeli friends and has studied Israeli society...
...Other leaders have been wounded but survived similar attempts on their lives. These figures had a few things in common, most notably their public denunciations of Syria and its allies in Lebanon, and the fact that their killers—at least officially—remain unknown...
...peak last week when the party called for the government’s dismantlement. In his most recent speech, Nasrallah, Hezbollah’s leader, called the current government “Mr. Jeffrey Feltman’s government,” referring to the US ambassador to Lebanon...
...question of who is responsible for the recent spate of murders needs to be settled, but now is not the time. Now is the time to revive the Lebanese national dialogue and restore relations between the various sects and political parties. As long as the sectarian divide in Lebanon continues to widen, the answer to “who is to blame for these assassinations?” will not serve the nation’s interests. In fact, were that question to be answered tomorrow, the road to sectarian blood-letting would continue to materialize without noticeable diminution...
...difficult as it may be, the Lebanese government and the Lebanese people should not push for an immediate international tribunal because that would inflame Syria and its allies in Lebanon. Instead, the government—and its supporters in the West—should focus on salvaging Lebanese national unity from internal decline by reaching out to the opposition and delineating acceptable terms for national reconciliation...