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...that no one wants to talk about it. Where is the open dialogue, Harvard? What happened to our search for veritas? Instead of seeking the truth regarding the Israeli/Palestinian conflict the school has divided itself into three groups: on one side those who are pro-Israel (not anti-Arab), on the other those who support Palestine (not anti-Jew) and in the middle lie the rest--held hostage by the conflicting viewpoints flying around them. The result? People just don't want to talk about it anymore. Our campus has fallen victim to a virus fatal to an institution...
...most able to stop the violence is also debatable. But students aren't debating anything. Newspaper coverage has been sparse. The Harvard Independent, ostensibly a commentary magazine, published a provocative-looking issue last week. The cover story was called "Hillel's face off against the Society of Arab Students." The actual article, however, was less than two pages and was nothing more than a summary of the circumstances surrounding the separate rallies...
...only kind of public treatment of this issue since the outbreak of violence over a month ago has been a series of highly partisan rallies/vigils sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and the Society of Arab Students (SAS). While these groups might pretend that they encourage open dialogue, their behavior suggests they want anything but. Rather than solicit other opinions they have polarized the issues. By holding separate vigils to mourn the dead and organizing competing rallies to assert their own opinions, these two groups have drawn a bold line between their two sides. Debate consists of yelling back...
...sure, it's unlikely that Chairman Arafat's headquarters would have moved from Tunis to the West Bank without the intifada. The PLO's efforts to launch guerrilla warfare against Israel from neighboring Arab states had been singularly unsuccessful. Arafat's headquarters had been in Jordan in the late '60s and Lebanon in the '70s and early '80s, but by 1987 he was billeted in far-off Tunisia with few instruments to pursue his nationalist struggle. Then came the uprising in the West Bank and Gaza. The young men of the territories occupied by Israel in 1967 may have suffered...
...expel the Israelis from the West Bank and Gaza, but they can make life there extremely uncomfortable for Israeli soldiers and settlers. Meanwhile, the Israelis can't crush the rebellion, and the force they're applying in pursuit of that goal will force even friendly governments in the Arab and Western worlds to distance themselves from Israel. So the situation stalemates once again in an ugly equilibrium. Ugly, but not necessarily unstable...