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When the IDF does take police action, it is to prevent terrorist attacks against Israeli civilians and the state. Tahreer, one of the photographers, states in the Picture Balata slideshow that the IDF “kill[s] fighters who defend the camp against the occupation.” If there were no weapons in the town, and if there were no bomb makers in the town, and if there were no militants in the town, the IDF would likely leave it alone. It is always difficult in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to establish causality and blame, but offering shelter...
...aside years of rigorous empirical findings and asserts that a woman can best protect herself against violence by taking responsibility for her own social and sexual behavior. Of course, actual research concluding that education on the prevalence, consequences, and forms of sexual violence is the most effective form of prevention would beg to differ, as would the many chaste, sober individuals who are raped. No matter what someone drinks, wears, or chooses to do, they do not ask to, nor should they expect to be raped; only a rapist can ultimately prevent a rape...
Lucy M. Caldwell’s column “Rushing to Rape” (Apr. 18) rushed to its own uninformed conclusion: women should prevent sexual assault by “taking control of [their] sexual behavior.” Rather than ascribing responsibility for sexual violence to the attackers, she suggests that women should stop giving men the opportunity and the cause, from excessive alcohol consumption to unclear relationship expectations, to rape them. She also writes that “morning-after guilt and regrets can give way to overblown cries of violation or abuse...
...revelation that Virginia Tech shooter Cho Seung-Hui's brief stay in a Virginia psychiatric facility did not prevent him from legally buying handguns has prompted outrage from gun control advocates. But at a time when any real gun control legislation is close to a political impossibility, even some Second Amendment activists agree that the criteria used to deem someone mentally unfit to purchase a firearm may need to be reformed...
...wireless (WIFI) device that was improperly in the secure area, it would have been possible to transfer secret material from classified computers to non-classifed computers, a process known as "migration." Since the discovery of Quintana's breach last fall, computer ports have been plugged with glue to prevent thumb drives being inserted...