Word: inhumanity
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...French media are systematically skewed against Israel. Others complain that criticizing Sharon quickly leads to charges of anti-Semitism. The fierceness of the debate augurs poorly for Europe's relations with Israel. Israelis blame Europe for being pusillanimous and pro-Palestinian; Europeans blame Israel for being harsh and inhuman. Yet their ties are inextricable. "Israel is a product of the Shoah, and the Shoah is a product of Europe," says Rony Brauman, former president of Médecins sans Frontières and a fierce Jewish critic of Israel. Chirac's initiative on anti-Semitism may help tear down...
...Chronicle follows the same narrative and historical arc as To Live. Xu Sanguan is a factory worker who argues with his wife, yells at his kids and curses like, well, a Chinese factory worker. But Xu manages to stay human in an increasingly inhuman world. The "blood merchant" of the title, he is willing to sell his plasma to keep his family fed and together?an eerily prescient scenario that evokes the recent real-life traumas in Henan province, where hundreds of thousands of peasants may have contracted HIV by selling their blood. Though Chronicle is at heart more hopeful...
...head was kicked "like a football," leaving his jaw broken. In the three prisons visited it found that inmates in need of psychiatric care were "frequently placed in unfurnished padded cells" where conditions were often "filthy," sometimes left naked or in their underwear. The delegation called these practices "inhuman and degrading" and called on the authorities to end them immediately. The government has promised new observation cells for inmates with psychiatric problems, but according to Valerie Bresnihan of the Irish Penal Reform Trust, "they aren't abolishing padded cells, just revamping them. Our prisons remain in serious breach of international...
...away tears as Blair told them, "Destiny put you in this place in history, in this moment in time." And if it turns out that he and Bush misjudged Saddam's capabilities? "If we are wrong, we will have destroyed a threat that, at its least, is responsible for inhuman carnage and suffering," Blair declared. "That is something I am confident history will forgive...
...much. For proof, see Dirty Pretty Things, an English film written by Steven Knight and directed by indie vet Stephen Frears. On its face, this could be called an expose of the inhuman condition. Illegal immigrants trade their organs for fake passports, and the dangerous operations are performed in a London hotel room. For people following a dream of solvency from the Third World to the First, everything must be bought, at the cost of one's honor. "I don't want to take your virginity," a sweatshop owner tells an employee, forcing her into oral sex. "I just want...