Another Isreali-Arab peace talk disintegrates
■ Conflict arises over the
details of an agreed pull
out from West Bank.
EREZ CROSSING, Gaza Strip
(AP) - Less than a month after one
much-touted Israeli-Arab peace ini
tiative crumbled, another dissolved
Thursday into mutual recriminations
- and the comprehensive Mideast
peace Prime Minister Ehud Barak
promised by year’s end seems further
away than ever.
Palestinians said peace talks were
in “crisis” after Barak refused to
budge on terms for an interim territo
ry withdrawal during a tense two
hour summit with Yasser Arafat at
this Israeli military outpost on the
Israel-Gaza border.
Jt was the second peace blow for
Barak in three weeks - talks with
Syria went into deep freeze in mid
January -and hes scrambled to deflect
Palestinian talk <$fWtfcad end.
“I am convinced that this barrier
will be overcome,” Barak told senior
officials of his Labor Party. “There is
a deep interest by both sides.”
The Palestinians want the pullout
from 6.1 percent of the West Bank
outlined in an interim agreement
signed in September to include popu
lous Arab suburbs of Jerusalem. The
Israelis refuse, at least for now.
“Once the confidence and credi
bility and integrity of the peace
process become absent, the element
of trust disappears and both sides find
themselves in a crisis situation, and
that’s where we are now,” lead
Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat
said in an interview.
Israel says it alone determines
what land goes back in the with
drawals, although it will take
Palestinian considerations into
account.
Barak is concerned the
Palestinians will use total control of
the suburbs, currently under joint
control, as the first stake in a claim to
Jerusalem, the city both sides claim
as their capital.
Erekat said Arafat suggested
using U.S. Mideast peace envoy
Dennis Ross, who is in the region, as
an arbitrator.
“We hope that through the good
^ lam convinced that this barrier will
be overcome. There is a deep interest
by both sides.”
Ehud Barak
Israeli prime minister
offices of the American administra
tion ... we can restore the confidence
and credibility,” he said.
Barak’s Foreign Minister David
Levy rejected that idea, accusing the
Palestinians of engineering the dis
pute in order to invite U.S. interven
tion.
“No outside force can do the work
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instead of us,” Levy said, pledging the
pullout would go ahead next week as
planned. “No one can do this instead
of the sides.”
Both the Israelis and Palestinians
see President Clinton as eager for a
legacy as his presidency winds down
and likely to press Israel into conces
sions.
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it,” he said.
But Novick was hesitant on using
history to teach lessons.
“Along with most historians, I’m
skeptical with most lessons of histo
ry”
Novick also condemned the role
that the Holocaust plays in American
politics.
“Whatever the larger lesson is
from the Holocaust, many say it sensi
tizes us,” Novick said.
He refuted this notion by examin
ing the conflicts in Cambodia,
Somalia, Rwanda, Bosnia and
Kosovo.
“Never again came to mean never
again if American troops are at risk,
and it’s not in national interest,”
Novick said.
Novick said that after the recent
conflict in Kdsovo, many politicians
had claimed that humanity had finally
learned the lesson of the Holocaust.
“I am, on various grounds, still
skeptical,” he replied.
“The universal lesson of never
again is something that American pol
itics have yet to put in practice.”
Novick also questioned the cur
rent method of teaching the
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Holocaust.
“The push behind teaching the
Holocaust is that an encounter is sure
to install moral exhibitions,” he said.
“The ” understanding of the
Holocaust has been skewed among the
American public because of the
lessons pounded along with it.”
In addition, Novick said that
requiring the Holocaust to be taught
may not always be wise.
In the right environment, he said, it
can be a life-changing experience.
On the other hand, forcing the
Holocaust into curriculums can be
cumbersome for uninterested students
and teachers.
Following the lecture, Novick
answered questions from a nearly
filled auditorium.
During this time, a man dissemi
nated literature calling the Holocaust a
hoax.
When this was brought to his
attention, Novick responded by saying
that “these malicious fruitcakes are
indeed irritating and infuriating.
“The best thing to do would have
been to ignore him.”
After the man waited through
about 45 minutes of discussion, he
questioned the existence of the
Holocaust out loud.
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really don’t think this is productive.”
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response. Novick then promptly asked
the man to leave. Loud applause fol
lowed, even though the man refused to
leave.
His continued presence caused
shouts from the crowd, resulting in the
conclusion of the forum.
“I didn’t lose friends, family and
relatives to listen to a goddamn Nazi
like that,” another man in the audience
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Despite the outburst, many people
lingered to talk with Novick.
“The biggest thing I got from the
forum was that while we hastily con
demn the actions of the Germans dur
ing the Holocaust, we willingly do
similar things everyday,” said Kathy
Babcock, a junior history major.
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