Word: indirectness
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...proceeded to murder between 700 and 800 Arabs. After four months of testimony and deliberation, the Israeli commission last week delivered its report on the Beirut massacre, and it proved to be a stinging indictment of Defense Minister Ariel Sharon and several military officials, concluding that they shared an "indirect" responsibility for what happened in the Beirut camps. The report assigned only a "certain degree" of blame to Prime Minister Menachem Begin, but it recommended that Sharon either resign or be dismissed. It was also highly critical of three top commanders and a military intelligence official who were involved...
...shared in the "indirect" responsibility for the deaths? Prune Minister Begin, said the commission, was "not a party to the decision to have Phalangists move into the camps." Nonetheless, it continued, he had displayed an "indifference" to the whole affair, and "for two days after the Prune Minister heard about the Phalangists' entry, he showed absolutely no interest in their actions in the camps." The commission concluded that Begin's "lack of involvement in the entire matter casts on him a certain degree of responsibility," but it did not recommend that he be obliged to step down as Prime Minister...
Choice may, in fact, be the key to the matter, the center of public uneasiness. On the face of it, or even in the heart of it, there is nothing wrong with the idea of surrogate parenthood, or with any indirect process by which a child is created because somebody wants him. The essential difference between such a procedure and an opposite one like abortion is that in the surrogate situation someone does want the child, the desire being compelling. Indeed, everyone concerned wants the child; the prospective family and the surrogate parent too, either for profit...
...only Yaron and Sharon were guilty of "indirect responsibility," the massacre might in some ways be easier to stomach. Yet as the report makes clear, several senior officers and cabinet members had reason to at least suspect the atrocities. They were content to remain passive...
This passiveness--indeed indifference--lies at the heart of "indirect responsibility" and is tragically reminiscent of another age. When the Nazis first began to persecute Jews in Germany, the police and other authorities did nothing. Civilians watched the beginnings of terror, uncaring. All of these groups had the same attitude: why should we do anything or feel responsible, we are harming no one. Such a parallel in no way equates the inaction of the IDF with the inhuman genocide administered by the Nazis. But it does show that some Israeli officers were guilty of the same indifference that helped destroy...