Word: gush
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Gush Shalom, the Israeli peace group Avnery helped to establish in 1992, calls for the creation of a Palestinian state in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, the closure of Israeli settlements, the release of all Palestinian prisoners and the declaration of Jerusalem as a joint capital of the two states...
...give you some tips on what not to do in these final moments. Don't gush over the roommate, even though you are so relieved to see that she is of the same gender that you are nearly euphoric. Your relationship with your daughter's roommate is completely irrelevant and will be confined, in the future, to brief phone conversations in which she will claim not to have seen your daughter for days. Don't talk to the resident adviser about anything--it might make you feel better to explain that your child has milk allergies, but your daughter will...
When the Bush team took power, so intense was the desire for a missile shield that the only question seemed to be, Should we tear up the ABM treaty now or wait and do it in Putin's face? Five months later, officials gush about how "constructive" Putin has been on missile defense. As Europe's opposition stiffened, a meeting with Putin became a priority. "There was nothing to be gained by keeping Russia at a distance," says an aide. "We're more likely to work out our differences if we build up a decent relationship...
...Palestinians. Israeli newspapers expressed shock that surpassed their anger seven weeks ago when a Palestinian sniper killed Shalhevet Pass, a 10-month-old in the Israeli settlement in Hebron. It somehow seemed worse that this time the victims were not Hebron extremists, but peaceable people of Tekoa in Gush Etzion...
...outrage from the other. In Gaza, a four-month-old Palestinian girl killed by an Israeli tank shell became the youngest victim of the violence. Two Romanian immigrant workers mending a security fence at the Gaza border were blown up by Palestinians. Settlers stoned Palestinians on the roads through Gush Etzion...