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...capable of positive change when used properly. It is a moral and economic lever that can coerce people and nations to change unjust practices. But this powerful lever is also a blunt tool; divestment squeezes all the citizens of the target country, whether or not they agree with the government??€™s decisions. And in this age of globalization and multinational companies, divestment also affects workers in other countries. Because of its power and its bluntness, divestment should be used sparingly...
...equal treatment of all of its citizens, both Jewish and Arab. In South Africa, however, blacks were the victims of laws that controlled their day-to-day lives, dictating where they could live, work and travel. And in South Africa, the government slaughtered blacks when they protested the government??€™s policies; Israel has done nothing even approaching that level of repression—to either Israeli Arabs or to Palestinians in the West Bank...
Perhaps the nation’s media were simply reacting to our government??€™s assurances. Secretary of State Colin Powell testified before a Congressional committee that he had no evidence that a massacre had occurred. And although President Bush requested that Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon end the military campaign in the West Bank, Washington did not even mildly rebuke its Middle Eastern ally...
...gone down in the past 20 years is based on a government survey that asks people to admit to illegal activity. Perhaps a more accurate measure of the effect of drug use on this country is the number of overdose deaths and emergency room visits, which the government??€™s own Department of Health and Human Services reports has escalated since the early 1980s and is currently at a record high. The same is true for Sabet’s ridiculous claim that the Dutch saw an exorbitant rise in marijuana use after decriminalization. The conclusion is drawn from...
...among teenagers and hard drug use overall in our country is largely a product of prohibition and not the drugs themselves. High school students have easier access to marijuana than alcohol because there is a black market for marijuana that targets kids. Why doesn’t the federal government??€”as the original Crimson editorial suggested—regulate marijuana like alcohol so kids don’t have such easy access...