Word: conflictive
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Harvard Hillel played host last night to “Israel-Palestine: Bridging the Divide,” a discussion that featured speakers representing both sides of the decades-long conflict in the Middle East...
Kobi Skolnick, who is from southern Israel, shared his perspective from the other end of the conflict. As a teen, Skolnick was part of the fundamentalist Kahana movement. To promote “Jewish power,” he said that he and fellow Kahana members were encouraged to use violence against Palestinians...
Despite the seemingly insurmountable tangle of issues that define the conflict, both Skolnick and Sarah maintained that peace activism is the best means for securing a solution...
...conflict in Idaho escalated in January, when Rick Hobson, a local activist, made a public-records request for the names of hunters who had killed wolves during the season, then posted all 122 on a website and took out an ad in the Idaho Statesman directing people to the list. "There's a small local group of hunters who feel that they and only they have a right to decide what happens to wildlife on state and federal land," he says. "I posted the list to remind them that it's a public process, that hunting is not a right...
...still minuscule in Wisconsin - there were only 15 harassment cases among 600,000 hunters - but each is treated as a potential tragedy. "Although there's few of them, it only takes one for there to be a bad outcome," says Stark. "No good can come from an emotional conflict between two armed people...