conflict

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Of course, this is deceitful and morally very corrupt because the conflict is a colonial conflict -- it's not a domestic dispute between a husband and wife -- it's a colonial conflict based on ethnic cleansing, racism, colonialism and apartheid.

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  1. noun A state of open, often prolonged fighting; a battle or war.
  2. noun A state of disharmony between incompatible or antithetical persons, ideas, or interests; a clash.
  3. noun Psychology A psychic struggle, often unconscious, resulting from the opposition or simultaneous functioning of mutually exclusive impulses, desires, or tendencies.
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  • The appointment of Richard Goldstone, the former war crimes prosecutor from South Africa, to head a fact-finding team into possible war crimes by both parties to the Gaza conflict is an important step in the right direction.
  • As observers of the conflict will be aware, when Israel kills Palestinian women and children, it roars with wounded dignity that Hamas must have been using them as human shields, and that they are the real criminals. —  newmatilda.com - Comments
  • Instead, the root of the conflict is the Arab world's rejection of Israel's right to exist —  Latest Articles
  • This conflict is a curious kind of blackmail, from which the whole world will never escape unless we lobby for the Palestinians to be recognized for what they are: "genuine partners" in peace talks. —  Inmanencia
  • Also that the conflict is a rally cry for radicals. —  Israpundit
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struggle ·  strife ·  crisis ·  warfare ·  violence ·  disaster ·  contest ·  dispute ·  confusion ·  difficulty ·  revolution ·  encounter

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conflict:   conflicts ·  conflicted ·  conflicting
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  1. Middle English, from Latin cōnflīctus, collision, from past participle of cōnflīgere, to strike together : com-, com- + flīgere, to strike.

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  1. from Latin conflictare, freq. of confligere, past participle conflictus, strike together, contend, fight, from com-, together, + fligere, strike. See conflict, n., and of. afflict, inflict
  2. = French conflict, now conflit = Spanish Portuguese conflicto = Italian conflitto = Dutch konflikt = German conflict = Danish konflikt, from Latin conflictus, a striking together, Late Latin a fight, contest, from confligere, past participle conflictus, strike together, contend, fight: see conflict, v.
 

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