Word: rejections
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...League's announcement disintegrated on Friday. Israeli Cabinet members agreed that the Beirut summit was a step toward Arab acceptance of Israel's legitimacy, but the terms of Abdullah's proposal remain unacceptable to Israel: Sharon has no intention of giving back all the occupied territories, and the Israelis reject the idea that Palestinian refugees have the right to return to Israel proper. Moreover, Sharon fumed at the Arabs' failure to condemn the Passover attack...
...goal--an independent Palestinian state--through negotiations alone. But something flipped. That became evident two summers ago when, at talks at Camp David, the Israelis offered him their best deal yet on a state. By objective measure, the offer still wasn't good enough, but Arafat didn't merely reject it. He could have asked for more or counter-proposed; instead he left the table, went home and fueled a new uprising, which led to this...
Campaign finance reform also disregards personal fortunes candidates can use during elections. The law attempts to limit the playing field by allowing candidates to voluntarily accept equal amounts from the government should they reject soft money. This rule, however, makes it a crime for a wealthy donor to contribute to campaigns while it does not limit use of a candidate’s personal fortune. Thus, the law favors the wealthy as well as entrenched incumbents...
...Muslim. I couldn’t imagine what my family would think and how my life would have to change to accommodate things like praying five times a day,” she says. “But one day, I woke up knowing that continuing to reject the truth was unfair to myself and, more importantly, unfair to God. [I realized] that my life could end at any moment and I didn’t want to die in that state,” Cohon says. “So, I converted, which consisted very simply of saying...
...women's bodies. At one conference he delivered a paper detailing why women can't hold their liquor as well as men. He looked up and noticed that the women in the room were hardly applauding. "They were a bit offended," he recalls. "There's a tendency to reject anything that shows them as inferior. They don't want to admit the biological difference...