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There is a difference between offering an argumentative viewpoint as a public citizen and doing so as a state official and army officer defending alleged war crimes. The university is a place to exchange ideas, including difficult and occluded ones. However, the appropriate venue to defend war crimes is the International Criminal Court at The Hague, not at Harvard University...
Justice Goldstone told the U.N. Human Rights Council that “the lack of accountability for war crimes and possible crimes against humanity has reached a crisis point.” Rather than hold Israel accountable, the Harvard Middle East Initiative provided one of its official spokesmen a platform to defend the indefensible actions of “Operation Cast Lead.” Oren jokingly quoted Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the foreign minister Avigdor Lieberman and others as telling him that he will have “a very hard job” as Israel?...
...imperative that Harvard adopt principled guidelines and vetting practices to ensure that war criminals and their official apologists—regardless of country of origin—not be given a platform at our university. By welcoming those whose actions deny students in Palestine their academic freedom, the university inevitably trivializes the struggle for human rights and collective freedom...
...Although Army officials don't blame the spike on repeated deployments to war zones, evidence is mounting to the contrary. Only about a third of Army suicides happen in war zones, officials note, and another third are among personnel who had never deployed. But that means two-thirds of Army suicides have deployed, many returning home with mental scars that make them prone to take their own lives, the Army's No. 2 officer said last week. (See pictures of an Army town's struggle with PTSD...
...likely to commit suicide than those that are not," General Peter Chiarelli told the House Armed Services Committee on Dec. 10. "The greatest single debilitating injury of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan is posttraumatic stress." Nearly 1 in 5 soldiers - more than 300,000 - comes home from the wars reporting symptoms of PTSD. Army officials also acknowledge that substance abuse, fueled by repeated combat tours, and a war-created shortage of mental-health professionals, contribute to mental ills that can lead to suicide...