A demonstration against former Chief of Staff Gen. Rafael Eitan erupted into a near riot at the Hebrew University Thursday when pro and anti-Eitan students battled each other in a meeting hall where Eitan had just mounted the podium to speak.
University security guards, unable to break-up the melee, summoned police who dragged some of the demonstrators outside and arrested two, one Jewish student and one Arab student.
The controversial former Chief of Staff, who retired last month under the shadow of criticism by the committee of inquiry into the Sabra and Shatila refugee camp massacres in Beirut last September, was about to address some 400 students. Eitan criticized Jews who supported “the other side” in the struggle for the “Land of Israel.” “If the other side ever wins, nothing will be left of us, ” he warned.
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