Word: violent
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That is the ultimate import of Castro's words. The situation is the Middle East may be tragic, violent and marked by individual atrocities on both sides. But it is not genocide. If we define it as such, and begin to believe our own words, then we will tolerate ever larger crimes, crimes which might accurately be labeled "genocide," even as, on a smaller scale, we tolerate them...
...self-delusion to see the Palestinians as unreasonable terrorists and dismiss the issue. Conditions of hopelessness and despair encourage violent response, and the solution lies not in turning a cold shoulder but in soothing Palestinian ills. If they are to be made more reasonable and less violent, it must be by talking with them instead of closing our ears to what they are saying...
...shuns the PLO because it uses terrorist tactics. But Israeli guerrillas--under Menachem Begin--also used terrorist tactics in the period before the creation of Israel in 1948. Moreover, the recent bombings of civilian Palestinian camps in Lebanon are as deplorable as violent raids by Palestinian terrorists...
...approved another resolution calling for students "to refrain from violent confrontations except in cases of self-defense." Enforcement should be left to the proper authorities, a BSA member said...
Twelve Harvard students will file a lawsuit on Thursday against the state of New Hampshire and its state police, charging that the students were "clubbed and maced" in an unnecessarily violent "violation of their civil right to protest" at the Seabrook nuclear power plant, Kevin Powers, attorney for the group and member of the Seabrook Coalition for Direct Action, said yesterday...