Word: helplessly
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...Palestinian people off their land. However, the current attempts to reach a resolution of the Palestinian refugee problem and the current Palestinian-Israeli struggle must not blind us to the fact that the war of independence was not a war waged by the Jews in Palestine against a helpless local Arab population. Israel's war of independence was a war for existence and the events of that war must be placed in that context. Current concerns with the plight of the Palestinian people must not lead to a misreading of the past...
...Rascoff is clearly upset about something. We suggest that he is offended by the photographs, not because they express nothing meaningful, but because the message they do convey is disturbing to his conscience. That is, that murder is evil, whether the victims are Planned Parenthood receptionists or innocent, helpless babies; and furthermore, that the pro-choice movement, with the blood of over 30,000,000 innocents on its hands, is hardly in a position to denounce murder. Emil J. Kiehne '95 for the Council of Peninsula
...Belmont Stakes to complete horse racing's Triple Crown, it wasn't as much of a victory as a coronation. It was expected, like the Red Sox finding ways to go seven games in the world Series before losing or Olympic swimming champion Janet Evans shredding helpless coeds in the water while at Stanford...
...Iron Fist Ending the inhumane disaster of the Air France hijacking by Algerian terrorists [Jan. 9] took courage, insight and determination by French authorities. The Armed Islamic Group is barbaric and savage; its way of achieving goals is to murder innocent and helpless people. The only way of dealing with such savagery is with an iron fist. We should not surrender an inch of ground. Khalid Al-Moosa London The Algerian imbroglio is like a jigsaw puzzle, difficult to solve. Between the government in Algeria and the militant Islamic Salvation Front there may be no lesser evil. But the most...
Whether by refusing to admit a boat carrying helpless Jewish refugees into an American harbor, or by opting not to bomb the railroad tracks to the death camps, the United States government fell far short of moral perfection in its policy towards the Holocaust...