Beneath the surface there are signs that Mr Yehoshua is deeply worried about Israel's moral future: not just in the face of war against Hizbullah, for example, but in its very own soul.
Two decades after the end of the Cold War, we face a cruel irony of history -- the risk of a nuclear confrontation between nations has gone down, but the risk of nuclear attack has gone up.
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It is only natural that many people, sooner than face the certainty of war now, prefer to shut their eyes to future danger.
Speaking outside the Senate chamber, Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) tried to put the best face on the latest version of the war-funding bill.
The debate underscores not only the complexities of Holocaust history but also the difficulty countries can face reconciling the heroic deeds of an individual during World War II with the record of a nation as a whole.
Early in 2007, when David Petraeus became Commanding General of United States and international forces in Iraq, he had in mind a strategy to manage the political pressures he would face because of the unpopularity of the war, then four years old, and of its author, George W. Bush.
Fierce loyalty to those actually putting their lives on the line, pride in their personal commitment, courage and skill, anger at those who seem to undermine them as they face the terrible risks of war.
Republicans hope their traditional though narrowing edge over Democrats on those issues will allow them to hang on to their Congressional majority in the face of growing unease with the war in Iraq.
Logically, to suggest that Shariah is opposed to the defense industry is on its face absurd given the history of Shariah-based empires waging war against their enemies.
Even in the face of a Great Depression, a World War, a Cold War, recessions, oil shocks, inflation and unemployment, Congress never sought to require the purchase of wheat or war bonds, force a higher savings rate or greater consumption of American goods, or require every American to purchase a more fuel efficient vehicle.
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But we now face a crisis that is the economic equivalent of war.
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While commodity products like ETFs have natural price competition working in their favor and large institutions have internal staff and consultants to negotiate on their behalf, individual investors face a host of challenges in the war on fees.
Shortly after, Mr. Welch's unit stormed the bridge, his face captured in a news photo that became one of the most widely viewed images of the war.
On the face of it, he was as willing to wage war without a second resolution as with one.
MyTravel, based in Greater Manchester, is struggling in the face of a protracted travel sector downturn triggered by the war in Iraq and the Sars outbreak.
And we emerged from that war as the strongest power on the face of the Earth.
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In the face of record deficits, ballooning entitlement costs and an indefinite war, the government plans to subsidize part of the analog-to-digital switch.
The support came in the face of stiff opposition from Spaniards who held a host of mass demonstrations against the U.S.-led war on Iraq.
"I was aware of the struggles one must face when returning home from the war, " Ellerton said.
If he becomes defense secretary, Hagel will face the challenge of ending that U.S.-led war and overseeing a smaller training force in the country.
Instead, a Maori warrior clutching a spear and with a face full of paint came running into the hall and began a ceremonial war dance.
Yet even in the face of the public outcry, Olmert remained ideologically committed to the belief that war is inherently futile.
Should we fail to do so, historians may well regard Ariel Sharon's legacy of weakening his country in the face of its enemies as the precursor to a devastating new phase in the War for the Free World.
"We face the prospect of NHS services being placed in the middle of a costly bidding war with private companies, discrete services cherry-picked for profit while the NHS is left to run the more complex and expensive services but with less money, " the Labour peer added.
Because I think you've got to face up to the fact that if you are a conscientious objector in a time of war, of your country at war, then you are excluded from the assembly of your countrymen in a particular manner.
Most important of all, the nature of most conflicts has changed over the past decade, from cold-war face-offs between well-supplied proxies to regional free-for-alls.
In 1993, in Geneva, the leaders of Bosnia's Serbs, Croats and Muslims met face to face for the first time in three months to press rival plans for the division of their war-ravaged state.
Some 22 months into the war -- and despite the world's sympathy -- they face a winter of freezing temperatures and uncertain food.
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