Word: letterer
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...LETTER FROM A CITIZEN ACTIVIST...
Back in Rome, I received a letter from Dani saying, "I like to see you agin in the kamp." But after the war ended and refugees began returning home, a letter I mailed to him in Ferizaj came back undelivered. Just a month later, though, I would find out in the most unlikely way that Dani was indeed back home - and doing just fine. On Nov. 23, 1999, I stumbled upon this passage in an Associated Press article about President Bill Clinton's one-day visit to celebrate victory in Kosovo: "An eighth-grader, Ramadan Ilazi, introduced Clinton, making...
Even at Harvard, critics of Iran and other undemocratic regimes in the Muslim and Arab world fear for their lives and liberty. In contrast, the worst that an anti-Israel activist like Matory has to worry about is a letter to the editor in The Harvard Crimson expressing an opposing view...
...save the fledgling peace process, some voices are calling for the parties to engage rather than fight the spoilers. Many former U.S. officials and some ex-Israeli peace negotiators are advocating that the U.S. and Israel reconsider their policies of isolating Hamas. A letter to Bush calling for the U.N. and U.S. envoys to promote a "genuine dialogue'" on issues including an Israeli-Hamas cease-fire was endorsed this month by such figures as former National Security Advisor Brent Scowcroft; onetime Deputy Secretary of State and ambassador to Israel Thomas Pickering; and former Israeli Foreign Minister Shomo...
...wrote. "It could be conducted, for example, by the U.N. and Quartet Middle East envoys. Promoting a cease-fire between Israel and Gaza would be a good starting point." If Hamas remains ostracized, they added, "prospects that they will play a spoiler role increase dramatically." Renewed Hamas violence, the letter suggested, would undercut Israeli public support for the negotiations. Foreign Minister Saud al-Faisal of Saudi Arabia, whose country opposes boycotting Hamas, says that neither Hamas nor hard-line Israeli parties need be given a veto over progress. "You have that kind of position on both sides," he told TIME...