Word: moralizes
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...Knowing, though, that there is Palestinian brutality, aggression and terrorism against Israelis, she searches for a place to fit them into her story: these parallel the plagues that God brings upon the Egyptians. In her narrative, these “reprehensible actions” have a moral: “there is an imbalance of power that Israel has the ability to remedy.” Does she mean that the Israeli government must provide its Palestinian attackers with better arms? May one only defend oneself against an equally strong enemy? Because it has better military capabilities, Asnes implies, Israel...
...Asnes, powerlessness, victimhood and the moral high ground are elements of a single package, while power, oppression and moral corruption are inextricably joined as well. She complains that in Israel today, the Jews are “not in the familiar position of victim”; she is actually mourning the fact that the Jews in Israel have power...
...This is indeed unfamiliar to the Jewish nation, having spent 2000 years in a position of statelessness. But Jews’ finally having power to defend themselves is nothing to mourn. Israel faces the challenge of using military power to protect its citizens in a moral way, considering the realities of a complex world. We must judge Israel’s decisions on this basis, and not dismiss its claims simply because it is the more powerful party in this particular conflict...
...want to be morally complicit in a system that does not give people enough money for their work and that I applaud you for," he gestured to the students sticking their heads out of the open Mass. Hall windows. "You are expressing the moral consciousness of this community. Do not minimize for one second that effect students can have on the public dialogue...
...Atlantic magazine. The students were thoroughbred products of the American educational system - gifted, disciplined, driven to succeed, with a calm but consuming focus. And, Brooks found, they were curiously flattened too. There was no evidence of the wildfire energy of the college student, no evidence of much moral passion. More troublingly, there was no sign at all of the sweet and fleeting belief that they could try things and fail at them and try other things and discard them until they found something that truly touched and transformed them - and that they could do for the rest of their lives...