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...Crimson's coverage of the Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) and Society of Arab Students (SAS) events staged in Harvard Yard ("Jewish and Arab Student Groups Stage Rallies," Oct. 24) missed an important distinction between the two rallies. The HSI rally made two claims: one humanitarian and one political. The humanitarian claim was that we mourn the loss of all life in the Middle East--Israeli and Palestinian--and hope and pray for a just and lasting peace in the region. We also condemned mob violence by all people and called for the release of Israeli hostages taken by Hezbollah...
...groups, however, disagree on the political message of our rally. No one disputes that more Arabs have died than Israelis in this recent conflict. The disagreement, however, is who is responsible for these deaths. HSI urges Americans to stand in solidarity with Israel because we believe that while Israel has made unprecedented efforts to create peace with its Arab neighbors, Chairman Yasser Arafat and his supporters have now responded with rhetoric and violence. In this situation, Israel has had no choice but to defend itself from these violent attacks. We too mourn the fact that youths have died in this...
...organizers of the HSI rally "deplored all deaths" but mentioned by name only two slain Israeli soldiers, erasing the fact that nearly all of those killed have been Palestinian civilians. The Harvard Society of Arab Students (SAS) maintained a silent, dignified presence near the rally. Several of SAS' most active members are Jews; numerous Jews and Israelis stood with SAS in making an explicit point to display the names of Palestinians, Israeli civilians and the two Israeli soldiers killed while under detention...
Darryl Li '01 is a social studies concentrator in Quincy House and assisted in the organization of the Society of Arab Students vigils...
...Israeli prime minister's political survival now appears dependent on the sort of U-turns conjured up by the Clinton administration's former policy Svengali. As the death toll from the renewed intifada in the West Bank and Gaza reached 161 Monday - all but 12 of them Arab - the prime minister elected on promises of completing the peace process started by Yitzhak Rabin found himself fighting for his political life Monday, having failed to form an emergency unity government with Ariel Sharon's hawkish Likud party. Israel's parliament reconvened Monday with Barak at the head of an embattled minority...