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...Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) are responsible for completely razing tens of Palestinian villages, shooting and killing or maiming hundreds of innocent Palestinians, including children, destroying thousands of Palestinian homes in acts of collective punishment, beating innocent Palestinians of all ages, physically and sexually torturing Palestinian prisoners and daily humiliating and terrorizing Palestinians in the Israeli-occupied West Bank and Gaza...
...example was insensitive and badly chosen. Saying we should call professors by their first names because the IDF does it is like carelessly saying we should salute each other with raised arms because Hitler and his gang...
Editor's Note: The author drew a clear distinction between the way the IDF structures itself as an organization and what that organization actually does. Of course, no offense was intended...
...IDF's effectiveness, I decided, had nothing whatsoever to do with state-of-the-art technology, years of extensive training or the special sauce that the army uses in their falafel recipes; it was predicated on their unique egalitarian spirit...
...Like the IDF, Harvard must learn to avoid stiff formality at all costs. The best way for Harvard's community to become more effective in crushing FID once and for all is, to quote Ross Perot, "join hands together and just lick this problem...