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...Harvard Ski Club is planning an excursion to Sugar brush in Vermont, and a few spots remain for students willing to pay $155 for the six-day trip, which begins Saturday. The Ski Club is also planning weekend and seven-day trips during reading period and intercession. They range in price and length from a $75 weekend trip to Loon, N.H., to a week-long trek to the snowy mountains of Aspen...
Another serious difference was the phrase from United Nations Resolution 242, "inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." The Arabs would all insist that Israel acknowledge the applicability of this principle in any treaties signed, because it would recognize that lands occupied by Israel after the Six-Day War had not legally changed hands. Begin understood
...memoirs, Menachem Begin wrote fiercely of the emergence of "the Fighting Jew." For much of Jewish history, through the long centuries of the Diaspora, that phrase was an oxymoron, a kind of contradiction in terms. Israel was the creation of fighting Jews, of course, but at least until the Six-Day War of 1967, Israel was the heroic and democratic underdog struggling for its very existence in the vast and hostile Arab wilderness. For a couple of thousand years, Jewish morality presupposed a kind of victim's righteousness, the special blamelessness of those without great collective power. Now Israel...
...voted in 1947 to create a Jewish homeland, it decreed that Palestine should be partitioned into two states, one Jewish and one Arab. The Arab portion included the West Bank. In 1950, however, the territory was annexed by Jordan and in 1967 it was seized by Israel in the Six-Day War after Jordan, committed by a defense pact to help Egypt, entered the conflict. The West Bank has been under Israeli military occupation ever since...
...territories." Israel responds that nothing "precludes the application of Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria [Begin's preferred biblical names for the West Bank] and Gaza." Camp David addresses the issue indirectly by incorporating United Nations Security Council Resolution 242 "in all its parts." Unanimously adopted after the Six-Day War of 1967, it refers to "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war," and calls for the "withdrawal of Israeli armed forces from territories occupied" and the right of all nations in the region to "secure and recognized boundaries...