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The Israeli army killed Hind Rajab; killed her family; killed the two paramedics who came to save her, with the complicity of the world’s most powerful governments and institutions refuse to let their deaths become a backdrop for a polite speech about peace.
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
By the turn of the century, the campaign to eradicate it from polite speech was in full force.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
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Scott Roxborough, HollywoodReporter, 17 Feb. 2026
By the turn of the century, the campaign to eradicate it from polite speech was in full force.
—Sonja Sharp, Los Angeles Times, 29 Aug. 2023
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“Polite speech.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/polite%20speech. Accessed 23 Feb. 2026.
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