Word: explainer
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...them. By referring to an ongoing tragedy that has been in the news, Tadros tries to fool us into associating the horrible images we've seen of Bosnia, with the Arab-Israeli conflict. This is a clever move because it forces the "pro-Israel side" to have to explain how and why the Israelis aren't rapists and murderers. This is essentially a variation on the old "when-did-you-stop-beating-your wife" strategy. If anything, Tadros is doing a disservice to the plight of the Bosnians by making such a ludicrous comparison...
...homeland in 1948, one indisputable cause of the mass exodus was the brutal violence with which the Israeli militia drove the civilian population out. The article does concede that "it was the policy of the Israeli High Command to secure the evacuation by the Arabs." Yet it fails to explain that the Israelis used all means necessary (which included destruction of entire towns, massacres of Palestinians who refused to flee and, in the case of the Dier Yassin massacre, some who were not given the choice) in order to insure that the Palestinians would be gone...
Hochanadel cannot easily explain his rapid rise to the pinnacle of the Crimson offense...
Beginning with this notion of the limits of our scientific nomenclature, Mack goes on to explain that the abduction experiences which he describes in his book are neither real nor imagined. Instead, they belong to another realm altogether, one that does not admit of a tidy distinction between reality and fantasy...
...anti-oppression. In a scene that refers directly to Spike Lee's "Malcolm X," a couple of young white students ask Newton if they can help with the Party. Unlike Malcolm X, who dismissed a similarly well-meaning white student with a brusque "No," Newton takes the time to explain kindly to the students that it is important for Blacks to do this for themselves...