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...Apparently the types of terrorism and human rights abuses manifested in Pakistan differ from those in Iran.Then the Harvard College Democrats presented five seemingly reasonable demands, calling for Khatami to admit his alleged role in multiple human rights abuses and to distance himself from the views of current President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. The Dems also protested in front of the Kennedy School. Their leader, Eric P. Lesser ’07, told CNN.com, “His speech is on ethics and violence. It would be very bizarre if he came here to speak on ethics and violence...
...Clearly, it's not simply some extreme Islamist fringe that favors withholding recognition - it's a majority consensus that includes many of the voters of President Mahmoud Abbas's own Fatah party. In part, as Israeli commentator Danny Rubinstein notes, that reflects a widely held belief among Palestinians that "Yasser Arafat and the PLO recognized the State of Israel in the Oslo agreement and what did they gain from that? Only suffering and misfortune." In fact, as Rubinstein notes, the settler population in the West Bank actually doubled during the Oslo years...
...violence is pointless. Fatah recognized the State of Israel only because it had become clear to them that Israel was an irreversible historical fact. But that certainly did not stop Fatah's rank and file from taking up arms during the intifada that began in September 2000. Ask Mahmoud Abbas or any other moderate Palestinian leader whether they would rather Israel had not come into being in 1948, and there can be no doubt of the honest answer...
...that while many Americans recoil, much of the rest of the world applauds. That's a big reason the U.S. is lobbying hard to prevent Venezuela from winning a nonpermanent seat next month on the U.N. Security Council, where Chávez could run interference for his friend, Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, in the dispute over Iran's nuclear ambitions. The U.S. is backing Guatemala for the seat, but Chávez has lined up the support of such influential nations as Russia, China and Brazil. And if Venezuela does win it, it would be the latest reminder that while 20th century...
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas found out the hard way that applause and accolades for being "a man of peace" at the United Nations don't automatically win him friends back home. Just hours after Abbas raised hopes for restarting the Middle East peace process by vowing on Thursday at the U.N. General Assembly that a new Palestinian government would recognize Israel, his future coalition partners, the Islamist militants of Hamas, killed the deal...