Word: argument
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...within Hamas, the argument may be tipping the other way. In furtive, underground meetings held in the West Bank and Gaza, a growing number of Hamas commanders say they are running out of patience with the U.S. and want to strike back. Insiders say the radicals are trying to exploit the exasperation within the movement at what they perceive as the Bush Administration's one-sided support of Israel and its attempts to press Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas to dissolve the Hamas cabinet...
...fierce debate over whether to launch terrorist attacks on U.S. targets in the Middle East. Despite its anti-American rhetoric, Hamas has until now refrained from any known terror strikes against the U.S. - only Israel is in its bomb sights, Hamas says. That position has been reinforced by the argument of more moderate elements in Hamas that if the movement acted in a reasonable manner, the U.S. and Europe would eventually be persuaded to release funds and foreign aid to the Palestinian Authority blocked last March after Hamas assumed office...
...argument that Hamas was never given a chance to rule effectively is wrong; Hamas never gave itself a chance to succeed. The West imposed sanctions, yes, but Hamas boasted that other Muslim countries would provide the necessary support. Iran, it seems, was too invested in Hezbollah’s activities this summer to prop up Hamas as well. And while it’s true that Israel detained dozens of Hamas lawmakers, hindering their ability to legislate, they were seized during the war and they were actually charged with crimes (belonging to an illegal organization), something even the United States...
...ignoring that he was chiefly responsible for the Harvard Financial Aid Initiative, which another article praises for breaking down Harvard elitism. Its logical inconsistencies are merely symptomatic of the Guide’s main problem: It mistakes misrepresentation and perversion of the facts for engaging in constructive argument. “More discussion” is not an adequate excuse for printing incomplete arguments. Often, the Guide presents a legitimate topic of debate, but it quickly offers a biased view without even the slightest counterargument, confusing naïve readers and infuriating more knowledgeable ones. Take, for example, the Guide?...
Simon Schama’s latest book, “Rough Crossings,” offers compelling support to the argument that for a significant portion of North Americans—namely the tens of thousands of African slaves in the British Colonies at the time—it was the British, not the American colonists, who offered a surer shot at freedom...