Word: logical
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...capabilities of the two sides, though totally asymmetric, were almost perfectly counterbalanced. And in the peculiar political-military logic of the Middle East, this set the stage for further confrontation...
...religious and ethnic hatred have overwhelmed political disagreement. Each vicious act has inspired vicious reprisal, locking the combatants in a circle in which neither is ready or willing to desist first. In the process, both have inflicted wounds that cut to the core of their dilemma: how to coexist. Logic, even self-interest, has been sacrificed to emotions run out of control...
...tortured relationship between Israelis and Palestinians was not the only thing at stake. While there remained a sound logic against a new, widespread Middle East war--namely that the Arab armies are in no shape to take on Israel's--the furious race of developments left regional leaders with a creepy hint of that possibility, especially after a new front opened up when Hizballah militiamen in Lebanon breached the border to kidnap three soldiers from Israel. Barak holds Syria, the real power in Lebanon, responsible and said in an interview with TIME that Israelis would "keep for ourselves the right...
...probably not what the framers had in mind. I don't remember seeing the phrase "bitching and moaning" anywhere in the Bill of Rights. Besides, voting actually endangers your right to complain because you might vote for the winner, thus making you partly responsible. Mr. Convery responded to that logic with extra homework...
...building Israeli settlements from the 1970s onward in order to create "facts on the ground" in any future peace negotiations. Those facts on the ground now include some 120,000 Israeli settlers dotted throughout the West Bank and a further 5,000 in Gaza - territory that Israel, by the logic of the Oslo peace process, ultimately intends to cede to a Palestinian state. Needless to say the settlers, who are predominantly armed ideologues laying claim to what they see as the biblical Land of Israel regardless of Palestinian ownership or international law, have little interest in seeing through the peace...