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...post a "private seminar on the Middle East dilemma." One is Correspondent David Halevy, a native Israeli who has reported for TIME since 1969; the other is Nafez Nazzal, a U.S.-educated Palestinian who was born on the West Bank, heads the Middle East studies department at Bir Zeit University near Ramallah and advises TIME on West Bank affairs. Naturally, much of the reporting came from the correspondents who head our two bureaus in the Arab world, Beirut-based William Stewart and Cairo's William Drozdiak...
...move that seemed designed to improve the atmosphere for Strauss's visit, Israel made two significant gestures that affected the West Bank. The first was the reopening of Bir Zeit College near Ramallah, which was closed last May because of student demonstrations in favor of the Palestine Liberation Organization. The other was the shelving of plans to put Nablus residents, including its mayor, on trial for taking part in antisettlement protests. In an effort to convince Strauss that the settlements are essential to Israel's security, Agriculture Minister Ariel Sharon took the ambassador and his wife Helen...
...Bank have been on the rise. In the past two months there have been a number of clashes between Palestinians and the settlers, in which several Arabs have been killed or injured. Israeli troops have been more active in cracking down on the Arabs than on the settlers. Bir Zeit University, one of three Arab institutions of higher learning on the West Bank, has been closed since May. When residents of Nablus staged a general strike to protest Elon Moreh, soldiers forced shopkeepers to reopen their stores. The old Israeli practice of demolishing the homes of suspected terrorists has been...
...denied that maltreatment or torture is part of its official policy. But members of the diplomatic corps as well as of volunteer groups have witnessed numerous incidents of demonstrators being beaten during arrests. "I know torture happens," says Hugh Harcort, 48, an American professor of cultural studies at Bir Zeit University. "I don't know how you prove it, but if I see one of my students picked up by the Israelis and I see that he is injured when he is released, what am I supposed to think?" Amnesty International has asked Israel for an investigation of alleged...
...exercises for hours at a time. On at least one occasion, a group of 100 men were taken to the local military headquarters to pick weeds for most of the night. "If we didn't move fast enough," reported a 17-year-old student from Bir Zeit College, "they beat us with their fists and sticks. One soldier told me, 'Your hair is too long.' I said, 'Why do you say that? Don't Jews have long hair?' He said, 'We do, but you shouldn't because you are not human beings...