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None of that, however, softened Shamir's defiance. He managed to widen the U.S.-Israeli rift by shrugging off a personal letter from President Bush asking him to accept a U.N. investigation of the Temple Mount riot, in which Israeli police killed 20 Palestinians. Bush advised Shamir to get out of the headlines and let the spotlight return to Iraq. When Shamir refused to budge, the U.S. supported a unanimous Security Council resolution "deploring" Israel's intransigence, the second U.N. condemnation of Israel in just 12 days. Keeping up his barrage of harsh talk, Secretary of State James Baker called...
...Temple Mount riot stripped the conflict to its molten core and convinced many Arabs and Israelis that there is nothing left to talk about. The clandestine leadership of the intifadeh has called for the "liquidation" of Jewish soldiers and settlers, while hard-line Israelis have demanded harsher countermeasures against Palestinians. When a West Bank Arab took revenge by stabbing three Israelis to death in a quiet Jerusalem neighborhood last week, a senior Palestine Liberation Organization official heralded the new "war of daggers." An angry Israeli mob responded with assaults on Palestinians and even Israeli leftists...
HIPAC has attempted to inform the Harvard community about the Middle East, including the October 8 riot in Jerusalem. Immediately after the riot, HIPAC constructed a 7-point fact sheet, expressing our regret for the loss of life and using information from major international news bureaus. This fact sheet was posted on campus and was printed as an advertisement in The Crimson on October...
...what is being discussed at Harvard? What is dominating the United Nations? What has become the most important issue in the Middle East today? A tragic riot in Jerusalem. While HIPAC recognizes and in no way wants to downplay the significance of the October 8 riot, we urge our fellow students not to forget the larger, far more precarious situation in the region...
...police. Despite warnings by the Shin Bet, the nation's domestic security service, and the unusual presence of thousands of Palestinians on the Temple Mount on a Jewish holiday, the police inexplicably failed to deploy adequate reinforcements. (Police Minister Ronni Milo lamely explained that his forces mistakenly believed the riot would start at 3 a.m. that morning.) Said Yossi Sarid, a left-wing Knesset member: "There is no doubt that had the police prepared for this, this riot would have been prevented...