Word: moralizes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Tadros's charge that Israelis and Jews around the world do not consider the plight of the Palestinians rings hollow. Leading thinkers like Amos Oz have helped build the Israeli consensus for peace by critiquing flaws in the Zionist dream. Yet just as the Israeli public must recognize its moral imperative to stay committed to peace, Palestinians must reject a path to self-determination which is bloodied with the death of the innocent. Where are the Palestinian voices of self-critique that must speak up against the radical brutality of groups like Hamas...
...recognize Tadros' point that Israel's record is not perfect. The Israelis are not always the moral supermen that Tadros and the rest of us would like them to be. However, for him to claim that the Israelis "have failed to come to terms with their past" is ridiculous considering that he has extensively quoted prominent Israelis to document past injustices...
Financial concerns "position [a woman] right in the middle of two moral collision courses," Halkias emphasized...
...hunger strike is an overtly political weapon to be used against a moral adversary, or an adversary who depends upon a moral public. By practicing slow self-destruction, the protester displays his or her supreme devotion to a cause in an effort to undermine the moral defenses of the adversary...
...cleverly hit upon the very reason why the Hippocratic Society was founded: We have found that the Harvard pre-med curriculum does indeed foster a sense of competition, which creates an environment which is largely self-serving. The curriculum does not help us address the moral and social questions which we will face in a morally and socially demanding profession. The Hippocratic Society is a discussion group that invites doctors, professors and others from the community to fulfill this need. Hopefully, these speakers will be the "role models" that Lat claims we lack...