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...planned to write. “I have a list of books I want to write in my life, and this was not one of them. I just felt like I had to do it.” He says he worried that the first book written specifically to defend Israel would be “a right-wing religious [one].” He preferred that such a book come “from a civil liberties point of view...
...debate. “The divestment petition treats Israel as the Jew among nations,” he says. “You can criticize Israel all you want, but don’t deny its right to exist, and don’t deny its right to defend itself...
University President Lawrence H. Summers recently used morning prayers at Memorial Church to defend economics as a lens through which we can analyze our problems. I’m certain he was intending for us to apply economic principles to our gravest concerns—perhaps the pros and cons of dumping toxic waste on less-developed countries...
President Bush this week told the UN General Assembly that he went to war in Iraq to defend the credibility of the international body. Saddam's weapons of mass destruction represented an intolerable threat to international security, Bush said, and if the UN was derelict in its duty to confront that threat, the U.S. could afford no such luxury. But the Bush administration's current efforts on the sidelines at the UN to persuade reluctant nations to send troops to relieve the burden carried by U.S. forces in Iraq has not been helped by the absence of evidence to support...
...President Bush told the UN that he went to war to defend its credibility. But until such time as David Kay produces concrete evidence to back the administration's prewar claims, in the UN chamber it may be Washington's own credibility that needs defending...