Word: blame
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...months old--being shot at by Israeli soldiers is an insult to our common humanity. Every one of us who has been loved and raised by our parents, and every parent who has sacrificed for the sake of his or her children should be outraged. To lay exclusive blame on the Palestinians for the current violence, after the United Nations, Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch, among others, have condemned Israel for the use of "excessive force" strains credulity...
...argument is to blame the victim. A number of speakers at an Oct. 23 rally sponsored by Harvard Students for Israel (HSI) accused the Palestinians of purposely sending their youth into the line of fire for propaganda purposes. As if Palestinians were animals who would sacrifice their children today for newspaper photos that will be forgotten tomorrow. As if teenagers protesting in their own neighbourhoods against violent occupation somehow forced Israel to use helicopter gunships against them. And even if this transparently absurd and inhumane argument were true, would that not simply underscore the desperation imposed by generations lived under...
...ROOM IN YOUR MIND. You can try lending weight to this by comparing it to the gentle paradoxes of Zen and the subtleties of haiku. In the show's catalog, Alexandra Munroe, the director of Japan Society Gallery, who curated this show, tries. But no one would blame you if Peanuts also came to mind...
...Blame it on Baha...
...this election, this confoundingly close race, just dares wavering voters to make a decision and stick with it. It's even hard to choose whom to blame for its being so hard to choose. Could they be more alike, the two political princes, Texas and Tennessee, Harvard and Yale, the compassionate conservative against the pragmatic idealist? Could they be more different, one so unpolished it's hard to imagine, the other so shiny it hurts to look. Vice President Al Gore runs as a populist who doesn't talk much about the poor; George W. Bush, backed by more...