Word: punish
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...Israel for the failure of the diplomatic negotiations at Camp David in the summer of 2000 and the violence that erupted that fall. The Palestinian leadership certainly bears some responsibility for this violence as well. Yet Israel’s response to this violence has too frequently been to punish the entire population for the acts of its leaders or a few of its members...
...citizens. Israel must protect its population—a Sisyphean task in these gruesome days. Yet its efforts to ensure the safety of Israelis must accord with the principles that are self-evident to any first year law student. A person is innocent until proven guilty. You cannot punish one person for the act of another, let alone punish an entire village for the acts of one individual...
...instead of widening the power of members of the Harvard community to decide university policies, the new administration is heading backwards. The president and deans’ recent decision to punish sit-in participants more severely not only reflects a sad lack of understanding of the undemocratic university governance that necessitates such actions but is moreover a symptom of those very problems. It was made without the slightest input from students or faculty, demonstrating that administrators remain uninterested in involving anyone else in decisions of broad importance...
...Arafat told the group that the people who carried out the Jerusalem operation were "collaborators serving the strategy of Sharon to show that every Palestinian is a terrorist." He then interrupted the meeting to call an ultra-Orthodox rabbi in Jerusalem who had met him several times. "We will punish those who did this," Arafat told...
Maybe he will. But Fatah leaders say the Palestinian chief has no plans to punish anyone who attacks soldiers and settlers in the Palestinian territories--the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. It's an unpleasant distinction, but as the Fatah leaders see it, suicide bombings within Israel look like damnable terrorism to the outside world, while West Bank shootings cast the Palestinians as guerrillas waging a war against a foreign occupation. "Fatah is free to fight settlers and the army at any place in the West Bank but not inside the Green Line," says a senior Fatah official, referring...