The Cornell Daily Sun (https://cornellsun.com/page/4/?s=israel)
As a former advisor to Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas and a member of the Palestinian negotiating team during the 2000 Camp David Summit on Israeli-Palestinian peace, Omari offered a behind-the-scenes look into the peace process.
“Israel is an economic engine in the world economy,” said Adam Shapiro ’20 to the crowd. “Let’s all enjoy its products today and in our everyday lives.”
“My grandfather, David Ben-Gurion, more so than any other individual, was responsible for creating the State of Israel after 2,000 years of Jewish diaspora,” Ben-Gurion ’82 said.
Students for Justice in Palestine announced Wednesday at an event that it would continue boycotting the Cornell Tech’s partnership with the Technion Israel Institute of Technology.
Ivy League-educated, military-trained, professional jokester Joel Chasnoff played four different characters to examine whether one can truly be both liberal and Zionist.
Cornell Students for Justice in Palestine protested and held a die-in at an Israeli Independence Day celebration in Anabel Taylor Hall on Monday, angering many of the event’s student hosts and leading to arguments with Cornell Police.
Peace process expert David Makovsky said at Cornell on Tuesday that a “home run is not possible” in the Middle East, but that smaller efforts are working.
This might be the moment that Israeli baseball has been waiting for.
“As we speak now, this moment, something that was inconceivable 20 years ago is happening,” Dani Dayan said. Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “is visiting China while, simultaneously, the president of Israel is visiting Vietnam. We did not even have diplomatic relations with these countries 25 years ago.”
Cofounder of TAVtech, Phil Hayes, said the program allows people to have a positive impact and learn valuable programming skills that are increasingly relevant in today’s economy.