Word: righteousness
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...aides as still "very, very pro-Israel" but deeply disillusioned with its present government. Some of his lieutenants go much further. Storms one, invoking privately a name still publicly taboo in Washington: "Begin is like Nixon. He just keeps going too far; he refuses to listen; he is self-righteous. You cannot conduct business with...
...naturally to them that it hardly bears remarking. There was a strange compliment concealed here. The world accused Israel so violently in part because the massacre profoundly violated Israel's own moral standards. Some of the vitriol, too, was just anti-Semitism dressed up to look like righteous indignation...
...lighted this ordinary nightmare as if every boardroom, bedroom and bathroom were on the top floor of the worst little whorehouse in Bavaria: neon pinks and oranges in the toilets, navy blue seats against a sick-yellow wall, clashing as grotesquely as the local big shots do against the righteous Von Bohm. Their avarice is petty bourgeois, the stuff of small-town scandals in any country, but Fassbinder's mise en scene suggests that the subject, as well as the style, is Early Hitler...
...government. Forget some critics' contention that U.S. Jews have no right to speak out because they are not living under Israel's constant stress and turmoil. Their dreams and aspirations are bound up with Israel's, and to shut out their voices smacks of the worst sort of self-righteous censorship. Especially when they are voices of dissent...
...civilian reader simply does not know whether to believe this legend making, retailed by the author in a tone of righteous contempt. Resentment underlies many of the arguments advanced here, and not all of it is directed against the Soviets. The author frets that "the resolve and the military capability of the West had since 1918 been sapped by an uncritical hankering for peace." Among the hankerers, they comment snidely, were what Lenin called "useful fools," and these fainthearts were quick to join "socalled 'peace movements,' unobtrusively orchestrated and largely paid for by the U.S.S.R...