Word: defenseless
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...times more Palestinians than Israelis have been killed in the last 19 months. Now more than ever, decent people must question the talk of violence “on both sides” that is increasingly ill-equipped for concealing that Israel is a state occupying a dispossessed and defenseless people...
...Laden or the Taliban, it's an unequal one-way war that is only causing the misery and the flight of innocent civilians... And in this respect neither the United States nor Britain are handling the 'propaganda war' very well. It is being perceived as a war against the defenseless, and the poor. Perhaps because that is what...
...crisis in the Persian Gulf entered its fourth week ... the region seemed poised on the brink of war, a prospect made all the more horrible by fear that chemical weapons might be unleashed not only against troops but also against hundreds of thousands of defenseless civilians. The use of poison gas would be contrary to conventions ratified by virtually every nation in the world (including Iraq). Yet as American and Egyptian troops tried on their chemical-warfare suits ... and as civilians as far away as Tel Aviv clamored for similar protective gear, it was impossible to forget that Saddam Hussein...
...terrorist attacks on New York and Washington, Iran's two-decades-long enmity toward the United States dissolved in an extraordinary outpouring of compassion. President Mohammed Khatami boldly declared: "On behalf of the Iranian people and the Islamic Republic, I denounce [the attacks] which led to the killing of defenseless people." Days later a similar condemnation came from Supreme Leader Ayatullah Ali Khamenei. Could the horrific attacks spur rapprochement between Iran and the "Great Satan"? If Khamenei's remarks last week are anything to go by, the answer is: not yet. Speaking to a gathering of veterans...
...classes, and perhaps there were many in their ranks who joined the movement just for the drugs and the free love. That doesn’t even begin to discredit their message that the U.S. war in Vietnam was an unjust and ill-conceived adventure that killed thousands of defenseless peasants and ravaged a country. Thirty years after the Vietnam War, history has vindicated them. Don’t ask an old peacenik. Ask Robert McNamara, one of the architects of the war in the Johnson administration. A few years ago, he publicly recanted his tireless backing...