Word: anathemas
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...Israeli withdrawal to its 1967 borders. While Arafat has rushed to calibrate his own positions with the Saudi plan, Sharon has publicly rejected it. Having opposed the Oslo accords from the get-go, the prospect of giving up all or most of the West Bank and Gaza is anathema to the prime minister...
...initial steps to restore calm. They believe that unless Arafat can demonstrate the existence of a viable peaceful road to Palestinian statehood and an end to the occupation, any cease-fire is bound to collapse. But thus far, resuming long-term political negotiations over Palestinian statehood has been anathema to Sharon...
Understandable—but nonetheless misguided. This unconditional devotion to the government is anathema to democracy. Blind supporters think they are being patriotic, but in fact, they weaken the institutions they seek to protect. If we don’t speak up against the ills of our own governments, we relinquish the safeguards of democracy. And if the government then leads the nation astray, we become complicit in its crimes...
...Nation-building may be anathema at the Pentagon, but the campaign against the Taliban and al-Qaeda has necessarily eliminated the only structure of centralized power in Afghanistan - along with the only enemy a working majority of Afghanistan could agree on. And if the U.S. decides that it cannot let the ensuing vacuum swallow the nation it boasted of liberating, it may have to let the Pentagon drop the increasingly arti ficial-looking distinction between missions against the designated enemy and missions in support of the designated ally...
After the war, when the U.S. became concerned that the Mob and foreign governments were pushing drugs on Americans, hemp became anathema. That did have a certain logic at a time when the chemical line between the two crops was more blurred. THC wasn't identified as marijuana's active agent until 1964; it's likely that some pot and hemp plants back then were closer cousins than they are today. Even now, people caught with marijuana occasionally claim it's only hemp. Cops have complained that they can't tell the difference. And as recently...