Word: palestinians
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Your report on Secretary of State Madeleine Albright's mission to the Middle East [WORLD, Sept. 15] missed the central point. Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat has no choice but to re-embrace Hamas, the group responsible for the Ben Yehuda bombing, and other firebrands, because his life is at stake. The Palestinian populace has rejected him and his inept internal policies. Arafat was once a hero to the average Palestinian, but no longer. Lacking ballots, the frustrated populace may resort to bullets. Arafat knows this, and his reaction has been to sacrifice everything the Palestinian movement has achieved to save...
...Sept. 22 letter, Rustin Silverstein '99 and David Honig '99 criticize the printing of a Reuters photograph of a 12-year-old Palestinian boy being beaten by an Israeli soldier, saying that this coverage was "surprising and sad." Surprising, perhaps, since the U.S. media is generally so skewed towards the Zionist perspective, but not sad, for by no means is every critical exposure of Israeli biased or wrong. This photograph represented a move towards more balanced coverage, while their letter was simply a return to the revisionist writing about Israel and Palestinians that is normalized in mainstream U.S. discourse...
...argue that using the name "Arab East Jersualem" inaccurately describes the eastern part of Jerusalem because there is currently a Jewish majority in East Jerusalem. However, they neglect to mention that this majority was only achieved through a systematic pumping in of Jewish settlers and concurrent expulsion of native Palestinians by means of physical and legal violence. To uphold the policy of keeping Palestinians off of their land, denoted by such incidents as the notorious 1947 Deir Yassin massacre in a village in the Jerusalem district, Israeli law refuses building permits to native Palestinians in Jerusalem, legally deemed foreigners...
Most recently, Israeli authorities destroyed more than 25 Palestinian homes in Jerusalem based on the claim that they were built without a permit-virtually impossible for Palestinians to attain in the first place. Such action, along with the building of the settlement on Jabal Aba-Ghneim (Har Homa) and last September's opening of a tunnel underneath the Dome of the Rock, is clearly in violation of the Oslo peace accord's stipulation that the status of Jerusalem not be altered until final status negotiations. The authors, on the other hand, are concerned that The Crimson's reference to East...
...with regards to their claim that the picture of the soldier beating the 12-year-old boy ignores context, we ask, Under what circumstances can an armed soldier legitimately attack a young boy? However, they do raise a point which we believe is crucial to an understanding of the Palestinian-Israeli conflict: decontextualized violence often comes across in Western media as barbaric outbursts of terrorism, when in fact they are tragic reactions to the systematic violence that has been inflicted upon Palestinians from the inception of the colonial state of Israel in 1948 to the present. This foundational injustice must...