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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Medal of Honor. Jewish groups and veterans' organizations claim that anti-Semitism was the reason. Last week, after a two-year inquiry, an Army review board ruled that Rubitsky was not entitled to the medal. Lieut. Colonel Terrence Adkins, who led the inquiry, said Rubitsky's exploits "did not occur as alleged." An investigator described as "fraudulent" a photo with Japanese inscriptions declaring that "600 fine soldiers died because of a solitary American soldier." Rubitsky, 72, a retired merchant seaman from Milton, Wis., maintains, "It did happen. I think there is some sort of cover...
...expensive verification methods. Reducing conventional forces could save money, but not much: defense-budget experts from the Rand Corp. to the Congressional Budget agree that a 50% reduction in U.S. troops in Europe would yield savings of only $6 billion to $7 billion a year. Real savings would not occur unless troops based in the U.S. are demobilized, a politically unappetizing prospect because of its impact on local economies...
...none of that automatically justifies human rights violations. Such abuses must be condemned unequivocally--even when they occur in the Jewish state...
...peaceful demonstrations were broken up by a hail of gunfire and murder, the Israelis are reacting to the violent protests with considerable restraint. Dealing with such protests is a very difficult, but necessary, task that can never be done "peacefully." That is not to say that no abuses have occurred, but what can one really expect when every day for a period of two years 20,000 soldiers have battled violent demonstrators. Anytime that that many people are in a combat situation for such a long time, abuses will occur. The Israeli government would like nothing better than...
...Israel's great security risk need not have widespread implications is grossly unfair and intellectually dishonest. I do not desire to deny any and all wrongdoing by Israel--I only want intelligent people at Harvard to look up from their textbooks and see the real context in which things occur. That way maybe people will see the situation in the Middle East in its full moral and political complexity. Joshua Levinsohn...