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...only one year after Pan-Arab nationalism's final defeat at Israel's hands, Arafat became the first non-head of government to address the UN General Assembly, and the Arab League anointed the PLO "the sole legitimate representative of the Palestinian people," formally transferring responsibility for Palestinian fate into Palestinian hands. And if Arafat's personage became the symbol of this new nationalist voice suddenly recognized in the Arab world as the revolutionary head of state of a stateless people, his mystique was burnished by his uncanny ability to beat the odds...
...several other speakers said students must lobby American politicians and UN officials to put increased pressure on Khartoum, which thus far has refused to rein in the ongoing genocide in the western Sudanese region of Darfur...
Hours later, speakers voiced frustration with the United Nations’ persistent failure to take decisive action on Darfur. “For too long the UN has done nothing—appointed a commission to appoint a commission, conducted a study to conduct a study,” Sage lamented...
...Darfur Action Group are planning a vigil on the steps of Memorial Church on Nov. 18. The vigil will cap a week-long “awareness for action” campaign, in which organizers will distribute green ribbons to students and faculty who write letters to politicians and UN officials urging intervention in the Darfur crisis, according to Bec Hamilton, a joint-degree candidate at Harvard Law School and Kennedy School...
...leading Sunni Muslim clerical body, the Association of Muslim Scholars, which is viewed as allied with the insurgency, has condemned the assault and warned of an escalation of the insurgency elsewhere. And, of course, it has reiterated its call for a boycott of the January election. Others, like UN Secretary General Kofi Annan have warned that if the assault of Fallujah creates a backlash that keeps Sunnis away from the polls, then the operation will have been self-defeating. Even acting president Ghazi al-Yawer, the most senior Sunni figure in Allawi's government, has publicly warned that a bloody...