Word: reacted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...does not judge a democracy by the way its soldiers immediately react, young men and women under tremendous provocation. One judges a democracy by the way its courts react, in the dispassionate cool of judicial chambers. And the Israeli Supreme Court and other courts--have reacted magnificently. For the first time in the Mid East history, there is an independent judiciary willing to listen to the grievances of Arabs--that judiciary is called the Israeli Supreme Court...
...here, reading voraciously, with no good way to evaluate what is going on. All I can do is react emotionally. But this too has been disconcerting...
...Harvard, I have seen Zealots react to this intellectual crisis in three ways. The first is to suppress the notion that Israel has done anything wrong. Once during my first year, a Palestinian student posted a sign on the entryway bulletin board that showed an Israeli soldier beating an unarmed Palestinian woman with the butt of his rifle...
...conceded that the most important thing was for each individual who cared about China to make his or her own decision about how to react; however, he also believed that if, as a student, one came to the conclusion that the government's actions were wrong, one should choose not to study in China...
...Soviet Union. In Eastern Europe not only did Soviet troops remain in large numbers, but Communists brutally subverted political parties and seized control of national police and military organizations to ring down the Iron Curtain. At the time, the war-weary West was in no mood to react...