Word: defenders
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...cities--of the Ethiopian and Russian and thousands of other different immigrants--a demonstration for the world that the Jews now have a safe haven and are being protected by their own? Why were there no pictures of squadrons of Israeli Air Force jets--the guardians of liberty who defend the right of a people to live on a daily basis? We do the victims of the Holocaust a tremendous injustice in failing to extol and elevate the achievements of the Jewish state in the past 48 years at the same time that on this day of remembrance, Yom Hashoah...
...SCOTLAND, HAS OVERFLOWED with tributes to its 16 murdered children [WORLD, March 25]. But let us also memorialize teacher Gwenne Mayor. In the face of dark and bloody chaos, she reached beyond duty and instinct into the best of her human self and staked her life to try to defend other people's children. That she was slain in this attempt, along with so many of her charges, in no way diminishes the fact that in the long run it is love like hers that will triumph. ANTHONY BUCKLAND North Vancouver, British Columbia...
Blomberg says he is delighted that many "grass-roots" Christians are willing to take the Gospels' picture of Jesus totally on faith, but points out, "The problem is that other world views and religions make the same claims as we do. To defend your view in the marketplace of religious ideas, you have to be able to give reasons for why you believe the Bible's claims about itself...
...would be the case if we gave it a blank check, and we don't want the Chinese to use aggressive tactics, which would be the case if we gave them a blank check. I told the Chinese that Americans are unpredictable: even if we said we wouldn't defend Taiwan, the U.S. Congress and the American public might change their minds. The moral of the story is, be very cautious. As you saw in 1950--when we said we weren't going to do anything in Korea--we were at war within the year...
...COMPUTER in last month's celebrated chess match, he wasn't just after more fame and money. By his own account, the world chess champion was playing for you, me, the whole human species. He was trying, as he put it shortly before the match, to "help defend our dignity...