Word: truthful
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dershowitz, who labeled me a "careless and mendacious misreporter of truth," challenged me to "read the published record," to see what a good...
...know anything about John Larew, except that he is a careless and mendacious misreporter of truth, and that everything he says should be viewed against the background of the reality. How do I know this? Because of how he characterizes my own views on Israel. Everything he says about my views is demonstrably false. He accuses me of defending "year-long detainment without trial," and "no due process" in Israel. If Larew had simply bothered to read the published record, he would have seen that I have been opposed to administrative detention without due process for nearly 20 years...
...have abandoned the claim to have a monopoly on the truth; we no longer think that we are always right, that those who disagree with us are our enemies. We have now decided, firmly and irrevocably, to base our policy on the principles of freedom of choice, and to develop our culture through dialogue and acceptance of all that is applicable in our conditions...
Although it has long been famously neutral, Switzerland, as an English scholar once wrote, "has been in a state of war every weekend since 1945." The gibe has more than a little truth to it. On weekends rifle ranges around the country resound with the din of thousands of Swiss practicing their marksmanship. At the same time, Northrop F-5E Tiger fighter jets skim along mountain faces and blue-gray-uniformed figures clamber down couloirs and across alpine meadows. With a militia of 625,000 men, Switzerland, as the well-worn saying goes, does not have an army...
...Writing] was their health, it was not their sickness. I think the writing was their balance wheel.... They took life's chances... it's a very daring thing to tell the whole truth about what it's like to be alive...