Word: knowingly
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...already decided that all agencies will be required to slash funding for consultant contracts by 15%. Recalling the OMB's failure so far to count all existing contracts, Pryor remains skeptical. "Where are you going to cut it from," he wonders, "when you don't even know how much you're spending...
...little Bantustans" surrounded by Jewish settlements. One angry Jerusalem-based human rights activist was pressed to explain how Jews, with their long history as victims of oppression, could justify such treatment of their neighbors. In answer, he quoted a line of W.H. Auden's: "I and the public know what all school children learn; those to whom evil is done do evil in return...
...brother Fathi, a doctor who heads the Palestinian Red Crescent (equivalent of the Red Cross), remarks almost whimsically: "I think the world is divided into four classes: first, second, third and Palestinians. All the governments have decided this. Maybe there should be a zoo for us. You know, with a sign reading HERE IS A TERRORIST...
...question you have to ask me about a Palestinian state. I am still a refugee, still homeless and stateless. When I have my independent state and live as a human being, I will give you the answer. Not before that. I am dealing with history, with civilization. Do you know that Palestine is a land of prophets? There hasn't been a prophet who wasn't born there or passed through it. This is something deep in history and deep in the conscience of my people...
...trouble is that the Israelis think they have gotten away with something by proposing autonomy for the Palestinians. But by seizing land and building settlements all they have done is intensified the hatred. The fear under which Israelis live is a reflection of their own guilt. They know they have gone too far, but they don't know what to do about it. If Israel could convince us that they are interested in co-existence and not domination, there is a chance we could live together. But that chance is diminishing...