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Once again, as during the first intifada, the racist colonial occupation stands naked, paid for with U.S. aid and purchased over decades at the expense of Palestinian life, land, and identity and Israeli security and life. As the violence escalates, the profound disparity between the occupier and the occupied becomes ever clearer. Nearly three times more Palestinians than Israelis have been killed in the last 19 months. Now more than ever, decent people must question the talk of violence “on both sides” that is increasingly ill-equipped for concealing that Israel is a state occupying...
Life in quicksand has altered the Israeli experience in profound ways. Those directly exposed to violence have suffered physical and emotional injuries that will scar them for life. As mental-health workers, we have treated many victims who have been injured in more than one terror attack. We have tried to help people who have just lost a loved one while still grieving for an earlier victim. We have worked with doctors and nurses who are at risk for secondary traumatization owing to their exposure to so many dead and maimed...
...They vibrate with energy and visual force as they reveal the artist’s struggles to eliminate boundaries between drawing and painting, while probing figurative elements for their fundamental abstract forms. They read as transparent entries in the diary of the mind: betraying clearly on the surface the profound influences of artists such as Picasso and Gorky on de Kooning’s development...
...devotion to public service,” said University President Lawrence H. Summers in a statement released today. “He has been at the center of national and international debates on some of the most important and difficult issues of our time, and he has made profound contributions both to the life of the mind and the life of the nation...
...been there even a month--and I peered into a mirror. I had my collar on. As I looked, I said to myself, "You're the same as you were a month ago, except now you're a priest." And that was a really big moment, a profound moment. It was trouble...