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...their obsession with the Jews and with Israel indeed retards their progress and poisons their life. The original refusal of the Arab countries to accept the partition of Palestine as voted by the United Nations on November 29, 1947 became the cement of a politics of denial, rejection, and blame that has held together the Arab world, and exemplified its attitude toward the democratic West. The Arabs denied Jews their right to their ancestral homelanda right many times more obvious than, say, that of the Hashemite King to Jordanand then blamed the Jews for denying the Palestinians their homeland. Arab...
...same emotions will emerge, and while we can continue to increase our security, there’s no guarantee that one day our luck won’t run out once again. I’m not suggesting that the United States is in any way to blame for the motivations behind last Tuesday’s tragedy. But seeking to understand it is something that we owe to ourselves, and to our future...
...Catholics, backed by the Irish Republican Army, are manufacturing the scenes at Holy Cross by insisting upon taking their children to school on a Protestant street, rather than a longer but neutral back way. They see it all as part of a campaign to force them out and divert blame for the I.R.A.'s failure to disarm. Catholic parents say the attacks are based purely on bigotry. Some parents chose the less contentious route recommended by school officials or kept their daughters out of school entirely. But the number of children walking to school between rows of armor-clad police...
...bringing single parenthood out into the open. In general the stigma attached to unmarried women raising children is fading. "I think there is a different climate today," says Alison Garnham, Director of Policy for the London-based National Council for One Parent Families. "There was certainly a lot of blaming of lone parents in the '80s and '90s [in the U.K.] for all of society's ills. There is a much more reasonable approach now. There has been a toning down of the blame culture around lone parents which is a positive thing." In their comfortable home in south London...
Among almost everyone who spoke, the need to place blame was tempered by pleas for compassion and caution. Tawfiq Ali ’02, secretary of HIS, said he considered the terrorist strike an act of war, but added that anger “needs to go into a type of patriotism that isn’t about fighting a country so much as upholding and preserving our values...