Word: argumentative
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Antinuclear demonstrators are hardly new to Germany. In fact, this is the second such stop-the-transport protest this year. But since Sept. 11 the demonstrators have a new argument: that the spent nuclear waste, moving slowly by truck or rail, provides an easy target for terrorists...
...prosecution of such unconventional cases would be complex, and many have claimed that the case would take too long to build to be heard before a federal court. Yet this is only an argument why the Justice Department should be given the resources to prosecute cases of terrorism quickly and effectively, not mask its inability to do so by a process that saves the expense at the cost of fundamental rights. If our government has sufficient reasons to condemn a suspect in a military tribunal, it has sufficient evidence to convict that suspect in a court...
...basic argument made by the new Israeli “left-right” has been the same since the beginning of the recent intifada: Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and former President Bill Clinton made Palestinian Authority (PA) Chair Yassir Arafat the most generous offer possible, but Arafat nevertheless turned it down. They offered him control over most of Arab East Jerusalem and over 90 percent of the West Bank and Gaza. But Arafat was not willing to settle for all of this. Instead, just when the two sides were on the verge of a historic compromise...
...events of Sept. 11 have only added more weight to this argument. They have allowed Israeli government officials to depict Israel as the founder of the club of victims of terror, a club that America has now joined...
However, recent accounts published in the New York Review of Books and in The New York Times suggest that this argument obscures and conceals the role of Barak’s political weakness and Clinton’s exaggerated sense of urgency in the failure of the talks between the Israelis and Palestinians. It also blurs the fact that not all violence is terror, that at least some of what the Palestinians are doing can be understood as a legitimate struggle for independence...