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THOMAS COEX/AFP TAKING AIM: An Israeli soldier on patrol in Bethlehem Alone among mainstream Israeli politicians, Amram Mitzna sports a beard. Sectarians - Israeli Arabs, Ultra-Orthodox Jews and settlers - grow hair on their chins, but the rest of the political spectrum is clean-shaven. So the whiskers of Mitzna, who was picked last week to lead the Labor Party into national elections in January, have come to symbolize the enigma of this newcomer. Is there a strong, decisive chin beneath the fuzz, or is he soft and fluffy, like the beard? Labor's 130,000 members voted overwhelmingly to find...
...Eliezer also faces a primary challenge from legislator Haim Ramon and Haifa mayor Amram Mitzna, and he currently trails both men in the polls. Some Israeli analysts speculate that his sudden choice of the path of confrontation with Sharon is motivated in no small part by his desire to see off challengers within his own party. But it remains to be seen whether either Mitznah or Ramon is considered a credible candidate by the party's base or were simply a protest-vote choice of activists looking to get ben-Eliezer out of the government. Labor's decision also inserts...
...protesters charged that Major General Avram Mitzna, who oversaw military operations in the West Bank from May 1987 to June 1989, was responsible for several human rights abuses in the occupied territories...
...view the actions against Mitzna as wholly insignificant to the cause of Palestinian rights given Mitzna's history," Dominguez said...
...Censorship is not the issue," said anti-Mitznademonstrator John Welsh, a graduate of HarvardMedical School. "Mitzna can have free speech, buthe does not deserve the honor that the Universityhas given...