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...attacks, the Sadrists have taken to the streets, combining mass protest with gunplay in scenes reminiscent of the opening weeks of the Palestinian intifada in the Fall of 2000. That association is far from coincidental - Moqtada has sought to stir up Shiite passions by likening the plight of Iraqis under occupation to that of the Palestinians, and he recently vowed to cooperate with Hamas and Hezbollah in avenging the death of the assassinated Gaza Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...
...soon after they arrived there last April appear to have led to a cycle of attacks and crackdowns that have turned Fallujah into the cradle of Sunni Arab nationalist resistance to the U.S. presence in Iraq. In the narrative of these insurgents, the U.S. occupation has brought Iraqis a plight analogous with that of the Palestinians - a link underscored in leaflets distributed Thursday in Fallujah proclaiming the killings an answer to Israel's assassination of Hamas leader Sheikh Ahmed Yassin...
...course they are. But ever since the days when the council (and for that matter, The Crimson and, generally, the student body) was easily distracted by fawning over its favorite Maoist group or concerned about the plight of Colombian coffee-growers, there’s been a yearning in the council for a cool, calculated logic to guide its proceedings. Here enters a tricky argument that challenges that calculus through which the council has regained its credibility. Should the council ever make a conscious funding decision based on a magazine’s content? We might, of course, play...
...plight of other animals we eat and wear is no less horrifying. In speaking up on behalf of downtrodden creatures that feel pain but can’t communicate it, PETA is pursuing a just and noble cause...
...suffering whenever avoiding it would inconvenience them in any way. According to the unreflective PETA-bashing that appears in the media, just about anything that PETA does is “over the top,” and it’s apparently so obviously absurd to compare the plight of animals with the experiences of women, Holocaust victims and slaves that it isn’t worth offering a single argument against such comparisons...