Word: pacifist
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Your important story about the illegal settlement outpost of Migron, in the West Bank, erroneously referred to Peace Now as a "pacifist group." The organization was established by Israeli soldiers and has supported some Israeli military measures, including Israel's military response to Hizballah gunmen who crossed from Lebanon into Israel to kidnap two soldiers in the summer of 2006. Our objection to the construction and expansion of Israeli settlements in the Palestinian territories does not stem from a pacifist philosophy but from a pragmatic conviction: such settlements undermine Israel's security and the efforts to achieve a two-state...
...peace between Israel and the Palestinians. And the success of those negotiations will hinge in part on whether Olmert's government can sustain support for dismantling the West Bank settlements, more than 40% of which have been built illegally on private Palestinian land, according to Peace Now, an Israeli pacifist group...
...Letters comes at a time when yesterday's war is pressing for attention in today's headlines. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, the country's first leader born after World War II, has announced his intention to revise Japan's pacifist postwar constitution, and he recently elevated its Defense Agency to full cabinet-ministry status. Abe's grandfather Nobusuke Kishi had been a top official in Japan's wartime government (as well as a prominent postwar Prime Minister), and Abe himself has, in the past, fudged the issue of his country's responsibility for the Pacific war. Just how open that...
...establishment accustomed to keeping a low profile since the disasters of World War II. Abe told reporters that he was "truly proud as the Prime Minister to have produced a Defense Ministry," and the name change is just a start-Abe has said he intends to revise Japan's pacifist constitution, and may move to do so this year. Normally, such a change would threaten to destabilize a region long wary of any resurgence of Japanese militarism. But Abe has worked hard to improve relations with his neighbors-a fact reflected in their muted reaction. While Pyongyang, predictably, took Tokyo...
Crowd-pleasing Elvis fan Junichiro Koizumi bids farewell to the top job in Japan this week. His likely successor: conservative Shinzo Abe, right, who hopes to revamp Japan's pacifist constitution...