Word: mideast
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...Baghdad warning Saddam not to try any such thing. Three days later he fired off another "don't go" advisory, and White House advisers faxed a four-page decision memo recommending military retaliation to the presidential campaign bus in Dyersburg, Tennessee. And last Wednesday, after setting off a sizable Mideast crisis, the very first Kurdish letter writer conveyed an all-is-forgiven missive to Washington, saying he did not want this to rupture his relations with...
...ready for frank peace talks with Syria. Netanyahu, fresh from a visit Monday with Jordan's King Hussein, said Israel was willing to hold negotiations "on all outstanding matters." That opens the way for discussion about the status of the Golan Heights, captured from Syria during the 1967 Mideast War. Other outstanding matters include Israel's occupation of a southern strip of Lebanon and continued Hamas attacks on Israel from within Lebanon, which is controlled by Syria. Hussein is well-poised to play a central role in mediating an Israeli-Syrian peace, and is actively seeking that chance. Better than...
...Netanyahu pledge to abide by the Oslo peace accords, and Washington is gloomy about the future of Israeli-Palestinian relations. Since Netanyahu has ruled out returning the occupied Golan Heights, the Administration has abandoned hope of achieving an Israeli-Syrian peace treaty, the holy grail of Warren Christopher's Mideast diplomacy. But if the White House is less than delighted, a Republican leader in Congress was recently overheard saying of Netanyahu, "He's one of us." The Israelis have not only elected an American-style leader, it seems, they've also elected a Republican...
...brunch was the second in a series of discussions between the Hillel and SAS. The first brunch focused on more abstract and scholarly themes, such as political and economic development in the Mideast...
...Profs. Discuss Mideast," (news story, March 20): No fair-minded person would call the event with Messrs. Dershowitz and Peretz, as The Crimson does, a debate. Both speakers are well-known apologists for Israel. While terrorism is vile, and must be condemned by all, the two speakers seem to hold the view that terrorism is innate to Palestinian character or society. Prof. Dershowitz links "the legitimization of terrorism" to the "legitimization of the legitimization of the PLO by the world community." The implication is that the PLO, and by extension, we presume, Palestinians, are the barbarians at the gate...