Word: peacenik
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...have always emphasized that I am a peacenik, not a pacifist. I never suggested that if Palestinians seriously want to kill the Jews, we should let them do it. I always suggested that the Palestinians deserve an independent state of Palestine in the West Bank and Gaza. As things stand now, I have the impression that they want more than that. I do not accept the idea that the universal right of self-defense does not apply to Israel. If the Palestinians only want an independent state in the West Bank and Gaza, I would grant them such a state...
...Barak's electoral hopes suffered a further blow earlier this week with the murder of two peacenik Israeli men who'd gone with an Arab friend to a restaurant in the West Bank town of Tulkarm, before being dragged out by masked gunmen and executed. The killings left Israel's "peace camp" angry and depressed, and diminished the appetite of rank-and-file Barak supporters for pursuing an agreement with Yasser Arafat's Palestinian Authority. And whether they want it or not, after February 6 they're likely to get an effective time-out from the peace process. A time...
...MASTICATE on the pesto grilled Brie at the White Dog Cafe. Try not to snicker at the liberal peacenik literature or the eatery's rep for "award-winning cuisine and social activism...
Billy Crudup plays a Coast Guard officer bound for Vietnam; Jennifer Connelly, a peacenik. Naturally they fall in love. Hey, its the '60s. When she's killed in a car bombing, he goes on to a conventional political career. Years later Connelly starts haunting Crudup: phone calls, glimpses on the street. Is he hallucinating? Or was the bombing a pretext, letting her slip deeper into the radical underground? We never really know--or care. That's partly because of the inept production design (Montreal is visibly not New York City or Chicago), partly because of the flat direction and writing...
...tempered with a measure of caution. "Such optimism is based more on the assumption that the peace process is better off without Benjamin Netanyahu than on an understanding of who Barak is," says TIME Jerusalem bureau chief Lisa Beyer. "Barak is very hawkish. He's not an enthusiastic peacenik and, as military chief of staff, actually acted as a brake on Yitzhak Rabin in the initial stages of the peace process." And it was domestic issues, rather than peace, that formed the basis of the Labor party leader's challenge to Netanyahu...