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...whole, I am a bit worried about reparations in the context of guilt and blame and find somewhat unclear how helpful that is,” he said...
...Kipling wielded through his words and images. Mark Twain described him as "the only living person not head of a nation, whose voice is heard around the world the moment it drops a remark." It's a measure of this balanced book that Gilmour puts Kipling firmly in the context of his time but does not attempt to defend the indefensible. As he stresses, Kipling - ever the realist - touched real chords in the British psyche during the first 40 years of his life. Later he got many important things right, especially his view of the Nazis as they came...
...Dershowitz’s approach is emblematic of a typical American fallacy regarding the Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the search for a quick fix to terror that ignores the larger context in which the terror thrives...
...larger context in which Palestinian terrorism takes place—the context obscured by America’s single-minded focus on terrorism—is Israel’s 34-year military occupation of a civilian population. Since Israel’s conquest of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in 1967, these territories have been under military occupation, governed by the Fourth Geneva Convention. That remains the legal status of these territories to this day. In spite of the transfer of partial control to the Palestinian Authority in the framework of the Oslo Accords, Israel remains...
...this is obviously a comment that people will take out of context. How has the way you’ve been vilified in the media affected...