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...tensions in the Middle East escalated yesterday, members of Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel and the Society for Arab Students (SAS) said they were planning events to maintain positive relations between the two communities even though plans for a joint vigil earlier this week failed due to differing objectives...
...also said SAS and Hillel would discuss in the coming weeks how the two groups would be working together on campus...
...There are a lot of Palestinian students [at Harvard] who have relatives affected by the violence," said SAS Vice President Rita Hamad '03, a vigil organizer...
...SAS President Rayd K. Abu-Ayyash '01 said the vigil was solely for mourning the violence and was not political in nature. He noted that the ASA and Harvard Hillel held separate vigils, but said holding separate events wasn't a sign of antagonism between the two groups...
...SAS students then read letters and e-mail messages from young witnesses of the violence, including a Palestinian girl living in Jerusalem who said she had seen a two-year-old child shot...