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...soldiers who have recently served in the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) in the West Bank and Gaza. The soldiers describe their experiences securing the safety of Israeli citizens and combating violence in the territories while upholding the Spirit of IDF—the ethical code followed by the defense forces??and impacting daily Palestinian life. Although Hillel has chosen to host the exhibit, it has not chosen to endorse “Breaking the Silence” as an exhibit, an organization, or a message. The Hillel community seeks to be inclusive and inquisitive of all opinions...
...fleets are practical when faced with a uniform-clad national army, but al Qaeda is a nebulous network with cells in 60 countries. In this new species of war, the central imperative is not combating terrorists, but locating them. Such a task requires augmented intelligence capabilities and special operations forces??not a half-trillion dollars worth of new submarines and planes. The administration has clearly lost the ability to approach defense policy rationally. Certainly America’s national integrity and security against current and emerging threats does demand a solid military establishment. But our forces should...
...know about me. Every winter, I change my clock forward a single hour and fall into a total despair. I lie in bed eating Dove Promises and wondering when the goddamn sun will come back out. After years of trying to pin the blame for this behavior on outside forces??El Niño! our economic situation!—it was this winter that I finally accepted the fact that I’m a victim of Seasonal Affective Disorder...
Active administrative intervention as an effective means of cultivating “civic courage” and “views contrary to those of established forces?? seems not merely impractical, but almost absurd. The activism of the 1960s was resolute in its antagonism toward institutions and administrators; faculty meetings and procedural resolutions hardly seem the crucible for this specific brand of advocacy. Yet those that were the targets of student activism are now supposed to study and stoke it. This is not only ironic but impractical—a University’s job is to educate...
...independent Web site that tracks military deaths). Or maybe it’s because since then, according to the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, the U.S. government has spent $343 billion on “Military Operations and Other Defense Activities” and “Indigenous Security Forces??—only two of the four main areas of defense spending—in Iraq. Had the situation in Iraq radically improved over the past three years, this might seem money well spent. The reality, however—one revealed by the fact that...