Word: belief
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Judaism and Islam, for starters, cannot even agree on which son he almost sacrificed. Then there is Abraham's Covenant with God. Many Jews (and some conservative Christians) believe it granted the Jewish people alone the right to the Holy Land. That belief fuels much of the Israeli settler movement and plays an ever greater role in Israel's hostility toward Palestinian nationalist claims. "Our connection to the land goes back to our first ancestor. Arabs have no right to the land of Israel," says Rabbi Haim Druckman, a settler leader and a parliamentarian with the National Religious Party. This...
...petition should be as clear to those who did not sign it as to those of us who did (Op-Ed, “A Challenge to House Master Hanson,” Sept. 23). Professor Dershowitz, however, has chosen an easier path, by embracing President Summers’ belief that signing the petition constitutes “an action which is anti-Semitic in effect, if not in intent.” Dershowitz, who has elsewhere made it clear that he believes the signing to be an act of anti-Semitism, may assert whatever he likes, but when...
Defying a common belief that hypertension cannot be predicted in children, a Harvard Medical School professor has recently reported infants’ preference for salt and family histories may be risk factors for the disease...
...prime minister’s position reflects a widespread belief among Israelis that Arab leaders perceived Israel’s restraint in 1991 as a weakness that undermined its ability to prevent enemy strikes. Saddam attacked Israel precisely because he knew it would not fight back. Miraculously, the Scuds that hit Tel Aviv directly killed only two Israelis, but Israel cannot depend on luck again—not when there are growing suspicions that Israel will be Saddam’s first target with his developing stockpile of biological and chemical weapons...
...more pressing cases take up the limited time of lawyers and judges alike. In practice, police and prosecutors rarely enforce outdated statutes dealing with small issues. Likewise, some juries will inevitably decide not to convict a defendant they know to be guilty—due to extenuating circumstances, belief that the law broken was unjust or any number of reasons. Relying on individual citizens to judge cases, with all the variation of opinion that implies, means that the legal system will never dispense perfect justice—but that doesn’t mean such deviance should be encouraged...