Word: dilemmas
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...Both the Israelis and Palestinians have predicted all along that Zinni's cease-fire effort would fail, and unless their pessimism proves unfounded the Bush administration's dilemma will become all the more acute in the coming weeks by the likelihood of an outbreak of violence more intense than the one that forced President Bush to send his envoy in the first place. Israeli military officials have told the Washington Post that they're planning a "comprehensive" assault on Palestinian towns and refugee camps if no cease-fire is achieved, a military action broader and deeper in scope than...
...separation of church and state is a Christian answer to a Christian dilemma,” Lewis said...
...even a new cease-fire can buy Sharon much respite from Israel's basic dilemma over the West Bank and Gaza. If a truce is concluded, it's simply Step 1 on the path prescribed by the Mitchell and Tenet plans back to negotiating a two-state solution with Arafat. And if it fails, it simply plunges Israelis - and Palestinians - ever deeper into the horrors of a present that cannot hold...
...raise the ethical question of whether it is acceptable to genetically engineer animals for artwork. But no sooner did he get a perfunctory guffaw from the class for effect, than he gave a brief exhortation to the class to go home and think about the interesting ethical dilemma of engineering life as artwork. Without further comment, he clicked the slide continuing the lecture as normal...
...visit to Washington on Sept. 19, she said, "Indonesia is always against violence. Terrorism is an act of violence so we will definitely fight terrorism." But back home, the fear of a backlash from Indonesian Islamic groups has her government whipsawing in its treatment of terror suspects. Megawati's dilemma may explain why, despite the testimony of its own intelligence, the government couldn't even bring itself to admit the existence of an al-Qaeda terrorist camp in Sulawesi, and still allows one of its leaders, a man connected with Osama bin Laden's terrorist network, to remain at large...