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...called for a “jihad” against Israel. Arafat’s message worked: the first female suicide bomber struck Israel that same day. A week later, in a Feb. 3 op-ed piece to the New York Times, Arafat wrote, “I condemn the attacks carried out by terrorist groups against Israeli civilians.” This was his message to America and, ostensibly, to Israel. But Arafat, to his own followers, proclaimed “into Jerusalem we shall go as millions of martyrs as need...
...everybody wants torture to be used in such circumstances and would be glad that torture saved innocent lives. He stated that torture is used in such circumstances and that in a democracy it is no good for the people not to publicly deal with that fact and to hypocritically condemn such practices. Democracies have to get their “hands dirty” according to Dershowitz, who took a few more seconds to leap over the Constitution, the Geneva Accords, the Universal Declaration of the Rights of Man, and any other treaty outlawing torture. And Dershowitz was merciful too?...
...believes that since laws have been put in place to ‘equalize’ things, everyone has equal opportunity.” Indeed, Loury explains that since our country’s laws (as well as its ideals of freedom, democracy and equal opportunity) condemn racism, many Americans see policies that explicitly take race into account as unnecessary, or even as a sort of “reverse racism.” At this point, the popular discourse on race offers two options: do we consider race or do we ignore it completely when creating new policies...
...masculinity and virility as the ideal, the queen is often left without any courtiers—sometimes without any allies—in what can seem a lonely gay world. Walking into a room, I’m used to meeting the scornful eyes of other gay men who condemn me for perpetuating stereotypes. Last year, my gay best friend convinced me that I was always “acting,” that what little masculinity I had wasn’t enough. His honest appraisal painfully resonated with me because my flamboyance, I thought, did start with...
...1960s the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights was hailed as "the conscience of the nation." Its systematic public exposure of segregation was crucial to the passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. But today, petty political squabbles threaten to condemn the body to irrelevance...