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...Israeli civilians unimpeded. Were Hamas willing to end its boycott of Israel, end its call for genocide, recognize Israel’s right to exist in peace with its Arab neighbors, and renounce violence, it would find a ready and able peace partner in Jerusalem. However, to adapt a statement made by now-President Shimon Peres about the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), “A Hamas which renounces terrorism and cancels those clauses in its covenant which call on harming Israel will no longer be Hamas...
...gain international attention? Ask Yale art major Aliza Shvarts, whose press release of her project was picked up by the Washington Post and London’s Daily Telegraph Thursday evening shortly after its publication in the Yale Daily News that morning. According to the artist’s statement, Shvarts used a needle-less syringe to artificially inseminate herself, and then took abortifacient drugs to induce bleeding. She said she repeated this over the course of nine months, documenting the process by video and preserving the blood. Hours after Shvarts’ press release, Yale University issued a statement...
Papal visits are pastoral visits - that is, they are concerned with the encouraging and healing of a Pope's flock, not the formation of policy. And yet a pastoral statement as affecting as this one is something of a promissory note for subsequent action. At a TIME magazine luncheon for Cardinal William Levada, Benedict's successor as head of the Vatican doctrinal office (the one in charge of the most egregious sex abuse cases), we asked whether the Vatican intended to deal with the one part of the sex scandal that seems outstanding: beyond attending to victims and taking abusers...
...giving you my final warning," al-Sadr said in a written statement calling for a halt of attacks against his militia strongholds in Baghdad and southern Iraq. Al-Sadr's message urged the Iraqi government to end its crackdown and take the "road of peace." If not, al-Sadr said, "I will declare it open war until liberation...
...will never give up our resistance," said the statement from al-Sadr, who has long demanded a U.S. withdrawal from Iraq...