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Maryland: Sheikh Takes on Terrorism
by Cristina Abello
 Sheikh Professor Abdul Hadi Palazzi, a Muslim official and
scholar, stressed that democracy and cooperation are crucial to
defeating terrorism in a speech at Maryland University. Palazzi is
secretary general of the Italian Muslim Assembly. Concerning the
Arab-Israel conflict, Palazzi said many Arab governments and Muslim
extremists promote terrorism and refuse to use peaceful methods.
(Diamondback)
See also
Rutgers: Imam Speaks on Diversity by
Nick Sevillis
 Imam Abdul Hadi Palazzi expressed to students that it is
possible to be a Muslim scholar and leader and still support
America, Israel and democracy. (Daily Targum)
See also
Texas: Vocal Sheikh Supports Israel by Tessa Moll
Palazzi, a self-proclaimed "Muslim Zionist," praised the Bush
Administration for the removal of Saddam Hussein and offered support
of the Israeli state at the University last week. (Daily
Texan)
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Israel's Fence is No Crime, But It Runs a Dubious
Line
by Amos Oz
- Building a wall or a fence between enemies may or may not be a
mistake, but a crime it is not, and therefore it doesn't belong in
a court.
- I believe that building a fence between two violent enemies is
not a bad idea on one condition: that the fence must be built
between my garden and the garden of my neighbor and not in the
middle of my neighbor's garden.
- I'm against the location of this fence. I think it's wrong to
build it in the middle of the Palestinian territories.
- I always maintained that the house of Israel and Palestine
must be divided into two smaller apartments - one for the Israelis
and one for the Palestinians. But this can be achieved only
through negotiations and compromises and not through a criminal
court and not through blood and violence.
- A wall or a fence is not a substitute for negotiations. It is
high time for Ariel Sharon and Yasser Arafat to start talking to
each other. (Los Angeles Times)
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Israel's
Anti-Terror Fence: The World Court Case
by Laurence E. Rothenberg and Abraham Bell
- The security fence is a necessary and proportional response to
a campaign of genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes by
Palestinians.
- If the fence were built along the 1949 armistice line (the
"green line"), it would not achieve Israel's legitimate security
goal of protecting its citizens.
- The "green line" from 1949 bounding the West Bank is solely a
defunct military line demarcating the extent of the Transjordanian
invasion of Israel in 1948. Indeed, at the insistence of Syria,
Egypt, and Jordan, each of the armistice agreements of 1949
specified that the ceasefire lines were not borders and that
neither side relinquishes its territorial claims.
- A barrier along the armistice line would expose motorists
along the main Jerusalem-Tel Aviv highway to Palestinian sniper
fire near the Latrun salient and would recreate the division of
Jerusalem that existed from 1949 to 1967, when Israeli civilians
were repeatedly attacked by snipers from the Jordanian-controlled
side of the line.
- Additionally, this would expose Israeli civilian aircraft
landing and taking off from Israel's international airport in Lod
to shoulder-launched missile attacks from Palestinian terrorists
in the Benjamin region of the West Bank. (Jerusalem Center for
Public Affairs)
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