Word: defender
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...defend particular terrorists, for example Abul Abbas Zaidan, who led the hijacking of the Italian ship on which the American tourist was killed...
...tradition, will face the bimbo from the Big Ten, some hulking squad without a quarterback that will get run over on Rodney Peete street, in the Rose Bowl. And Notre Dame will go elsewhere to defend its top ranking...
...receiving more than $3 billion, almost one-half of all U.S. foreign aid, at a rate of almost $8 million a day. Aid to Israel has always been supported under the assumption that it was a moral imperative: Israel needed our tax dollars to promote democracy and to defend itself from hostile neighbors...
Israel's violent response to the 10-month Palestinian uprising, however, has made it clear to Americans that our perceptions were somewhat skewed. Most everyone agrees that we should continue to support Israel, to defend its existence as well as its integrity. It does not necessarily follow however, that this support should include such massive funding of its brutal occupation and human rights violations. Most Americans now realize that Palestinians are the victims, not the oppressors; the occupied, not the occupiers...
...that familiar archetype, the sadist whose dark impulses might have remained impotent had they not been licensed by a police bureaucracy demanding results, and no questions asked. This pathology is beyond comprehension by conventional reportage, beyond control by conventional moral opprobrium. Confronting him, the decent individual can only defend his own integrity. The painful cost of that integrity is shown by the survivors of Barbie's interrogations, the witnesses to his depredations, in the interviews that form the film's redemptive center...