Word: assertiveness
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...question of Israel’s security, the professors repeat well over a dozen times that there is a “strong moral case” for Israel’s existence, something they mentioned only briefly in the original article. They also assert for the first time in the book that “the United States should stand willing to come to Israel’s assistance if its survival were ever in jeopardy...
...First, the authors no longer assert that Israeli “citizenship is based on the principle of blood kinship,” a charge that had prompted Harvard’s Dershowitz to declare that the “mendacious emphasis on Jewish ‘blood’ “might indicate that the professors had used “neo-Nazi propaganda” in their sourcing...
...Bush to produce results, as support for his leadership withers at home and in Washington. The vote is scheduled to take place just as Congress receives a progress report by the U.S. military commander in Iraq, General David Petraeus. If the fractiousness continues, however, well-armed regional powers could assert control over the wealth under their turf, adding economic momentum to a national bust...
...Ghraib, and why it did not pursue charges against civilian contractors, over whom it has jurisdiction, despite apparently abundant evidence against some of them, notably Stefanowicz. In fact, two U.S. military reports, one prepared by Maj. Gen. Anthony Taguba and the other by Maj. Gen. George Fay, assert that Stefanowicz was likely responsible for abuses at Abu Ghraib, something that his lawyer has firmly denied. Witnesses at the trials of Abu Ghraib defendants also described Stefanowicz as an active participant in abuse...
...separate, later primary election look prohibitive. More crucially, state party leaders like Geller simply believe Dean and the DNC are out of line. Florida's Democratic Senator, Bill Nelson, is threatening legal action to test whether poltiical parties actually have the kind of authority the DNC is trying to assert. And Geller says he even plans to urge Democratic donors in Florida, one of the country's most lucrative sources of political cash, to boycott the national party and keep their funds in the state if the DNC sticks to its ruling. Perhaps the national party will wise...