peacenik

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Some would even say, well what do you expect from Shimon Peres, given his (largely undeserved) image as a peacenik dove.

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  1. noun Informal A political activist who publicly opposes war, a particular war, or the proliferation of weapons; a pacifist.

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  • From what he admitted to me, he became obsessed—'justifiably concerned' is how he put it—with the 'peacenik' group that hung out at the Rouge et Noir. —  Muller, Marcia - [14] Wolf in the shadows
  • I became a peacenik, marched for nuclear disarmament, sang folk songs in Washington Square Park. —  Omni: Winter 1995
  • American humorist and early peacenik, Mark Twain, was VP of the US Anti-Imperialism league in the late 19th-early 20th century when the quest for empire was fervent and hundreds of thousands of people were killed in imperial conquests —  The World Can't Wait!
  • Despite having ostensibly learned to dig beneath their government's justification for war after the Gulf of Tonkin resolution, many an ex-peacenik was now ready to join the bandwagon for war in the Balkans.
  • As for Ehud Barak, the third of the sound-bite-mouthing Israeli troika and leader of the Labor Party, his talk of deepening and broadening the campaign in Gaza has not been unrelated to an attempt to deepen and broaden his appeal among Israelis who seem to have seen him as a peacenik. —  International Herald Tribune - World News, Analysis, and Global Opinions
 

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