Word: inhumanism
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...victims of imperialism--the Palestinian refugees, crowded into their miserable and inhuman camps, and their compatriots who'd stayed behind in Israel and found economic security there but neither personal nor national equality with the Israeli Jews who had replaced the British as the country's rulers--was pitted against another, perhaps the longest suffering people in history. Amos Elon, an Israeli journalist, wrote in 1971: "Life was stronger than the simplicities that were generated by the disasters and complexities of the times, and made a mockery of them...
...them suspect. We have examined the basis of their major policies, and we find them unconscionable and insidious. We have examined the basis of their major policies, and we find them unconscionable and insidious. We have appraised the results of their words and deeds, and judged them to be inhuman and socially criminal. Our conscience leaves us no choice but to move will do within the next two weeks...
...agenda for the future. A corollary belief is that the achievement of a (nearly) warless international community dominated by U.S. power would allow this nation's domestic machinery to function within the old imperial now called multi-national context, but without public resistance such as that generated by the inhuman policies used to prosecute the Indochina Wars...
...when Robert Kennedy '48, then campaigning for the Senate, toured the premises in 1965 and left calling it a "snake pit." Willowbrook turned into a headline story in New York during the early part of 1972 when a local television reporter, Geraldo Rivera, did a searing expose of the inhuman conditions which prevailed dispite Kennedy's much publicized visit. The Rivera expose attracted the largest audience for a locally produced show in television history, causing some superficial and politically expedient changes to be made...
...name of all that is decent and good about humankind I apologize to my friend for the inhuman treatment she must put up with. I hope that it is in her power to forgive us our sins against her. I pray that children like her might not live the same tortured and unnecessary life in the years to come...