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WHEN Palestinians were shot two weeks ago in Jerusalem, the U.S. moved quickly to get the UN to take action against Israel. Eventually, the U.S. ambassador managed to pass a U.S-sponsored resolution, prevent the more radical PLO resolution from passing and keep the anti-Iraq coalition together. The maneuver was a major victory for Bush's policy in the Gulf--giving Israel the lightest rebuke possible without seeming overly solicitous toward its long-time Friend...
...Springer and other counselors led an exercise in which Jews acted out the PLO and Palestinians acted out the Israeli army. The goal of the exercise was to teach the campers the opposing point of view...
Judaism is not "every person for his or herself." And Judaism is not "every ethnic group for itself." And Judaism is not shooting live ammunition at children throwing stones, or blowing up houses of PLO sympathizers or holding people in detention for years without charges...
...simple statement of the right to learn or a call to freedom, but as part of a larger campaign to expel the Jews from the Land--all the Land--and liquidate metaphorically and literally the people and the state of Israel. (This is what the various movements within the PLO are still sworn to by their so-called Covenant...
...PLO changed? Possibly. But their saying so is not enough to convince me. Not while the killing goes on. Not while demonstrators at Harvard last week who described themselves as PLO supporters could chant "Israel no, Palestine Yes!" until one student prevailed upon them to find a less inflammatory (perhaps less honest) slogan...