He said he understood "how Israelis felt faced with the terrifying pressure of terrorist attacks," but he cautioned them against acting against Mr. Arafat, the Palestinian leader, out of "a kind of obsession that he is responsible for all that".
But at the time, I felt faced with the pressure of breaking into territory where I would be far outnumbered by the guys and far less prepared for the competitive skills they had already been subconsciously honing since they were 10 or staying in my comfort zone, where I was guaranteed good grades and preserved pride.
The dread that viewers feel while trying to figure out who is a zombie, or Cylon, or alien might be the very same dread they feel when faced with a very realistic robot.
I can't help wondering how some of the #hitlerwasright brigade would feel if faced with an Auschwitz survivor.
Lees had pinpointed the real problem, which is the fear we can feel when faced with people with different customs and values.
Celebrities and musicians will often talk – off the record – about the turmoil they feel when faced with endless requests from charities, desperate fans, or parents with seriously ill kids.
To Amy Banks, a psychiatrist who is the medical director for mental health at the Fenway Community Health Center in Boston, the hubbub shows the vulnerability many mental health professionals feel when faced with questions about the subjectivity of mental health diagnosis.
It may be satisfying, refreshing, even empowering, to give men a hard time, but I can't help imagine how I would feel if faced with similar accusations – "womanterrupting" or "womansplaining" for example.
This journey that Gilbert has embarked on with her Rayya, whom she will lose, and which she has chosen to tell us about, is the best of emotional literacy; of making available the struggles, the pleasures, the sadness, the anguishes and the pain that we all feel when faced with illness and death.
