Word: defenseless
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...well, including the paramilitary Shi'ite organization Amal, which is Haddad's main rival. Hundreds of other Christian militiamen, some attached to the Phalangist-dominated Lebanese Forces, have also moved into the south. The chief victims of the resulting violence have been Palestinian refugees, who were left defenseless by the departure of the Palestine Liberation Organization last August. Last week alone, masked gunmen killed six Palestinians near Sidon. Some 1,000 others have been forced at gunpoint to abandon their homes. Says a senior officer of the Lebanese Forces: "The Israelis' great mistake was not to disarm...
...meet individuals mostly, each supposedly filling a pocket of French life. There are three comedians, who turn out to have nothing in common except that they "take defenseless little children seriously. "There are lovers ("The French are moving towards a society of pals, away from an ideal of passion.") There are workers and scattered archetypes: the bourgeois Plane Bourcel who fears the rise of laziness, or "je m'en foutisme"; the Duc de Brossac who does not know the meaning of the word meritocracy. More often, Zeldin offers type and then shatters it (we discover that Brigitte Bardot likes "looking...
...Playboy encourages violence against women, presents women negatively and perpetuates the image of women as powerless and defenseless creatures," the SGA resolution read...
...argument is that Israel's responsibility consists in the fact that it is unleashed its rightwing surrogates on defenseless civilians under conditions which virtually guaranteed total abuse, and this was totally foresecuble by Israeli leaders...
...witnessed prior massacres of Palestinian civilians by Phalangists--it is impossible to conclude other than that the consequences of the Phalangists' entry into the camps were utterly predictable to the Israelis. The situation was analogous to that of a person unleashing a trained, vicious attack dog on a defenseless other--the injuries from which would be attributable to the "indirect responsibility" of the dog-owner only at the expense of credible notions of intentionality and responsibility. It is immaterial that the Israeli may have had a "legitimate" aim in "mopping up" (to use that morbid and dehumanizing expression) Palestinian resistance...