Word: israel
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Today in the Middle East, Iraq holds hundreds of Western hostages. Kuwait is being dismantled. Hundreds of thousands of troops are amassed, waiting for battle. Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein has repeatedly threatened to "burn half of Israel" with chemical weapons. The Arab countries and Israel are armed and tense; never before has the region been so saturated with destructive weapons...
...offer to cooperate with other students and groups toward peace and security in the Middle East. We will continue to make available accurate information regarding the Middle East and to hope that Harvard's students may benefit from our efforts. Yvette C. Alt '92 Co-chairperson Harvard-Israel Public Affairs Committee
...hear Saddam Hussein tell it, he and the leaders of Israel are involved in similar altercations with the United Nations over real estate. In most respects, the comparison is as invalid as it is invidious. Most, but alas...
...Israel's occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip began 23 years ago quite differently from Iraq's annexation of Kuwait in August. Jordan attacked Israel and forfeited the West Bank. A series of Labor-led governments held on to the territory for two defensible reasons: as a buffer against another Arab onslaught and for bargaining leverage in negotiations...
...once the Likud bloc came into dominance in the late '70s, an additional motive that had been lurking on the fringes of Israeli politics moved front and center: irredentism -- one state's claim, rooted in history, to the land of another. So Israel's policy today does indeed have something in common with Iraq's. Saddam says that since Kuwait and Iraq were part of the same province under the control of the Ottoman Turks, they should be rejoined now. For their part, many Likud leaders believe that since the West Bank was ruled by Israelites in biblical times...