Word: openly
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...most depressing thing about the recent violence in the Middle East is 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...
...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...
Dialogue between SAS and HSI was a closed-door, moderated discussion involving approximately 15 members on each side. People who organized the event have informed me that the lack of press at the discussion facilitated "open dialogue." The assurance that what was said would not leave the room certainly made things more comfortable for the 30 to 40 lucky participants. However, the secrecy of the dialogue only reinforced the prevailing sentiment that this issue can only be confronted privately...
There remains hope, however. Immediately following the rallies, the Multicultural Issues Forum sponsored two open dialogues on this subject despite concern from some quarters that they should wait until the situation was less "tense." Additionally, dialogue has been occurring among friends, in dining halls and on House e-mail lists...
...patience for their protests, but they also created a political crisis for Israel. It was the intifada more than anything that forced Israel to abandon efforts to foster an alternative leadership in territories under their control, to acknowledge the PLO as the legitimate representative of Palestinian aspirations and to open negotiations...