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Other reforms, such as requiring offenders ruled insane to prove they have recovered from their illness before permitting their release (as opposed to the present system, which requires that the government prove the defendant is still insane and should remain in stitutionalized) would be far less unjust than the guilty but-mentally-ill verdict, and certainly less disingenuous. If the insanity plea has in deed become a big courtroom game, the guilty but mentally-ill verdict does not encourage a change in the rules Rather, it encourages cheating...
...effort earlier this month to expel Israel from the United Nations because it is "not a peace-loving nation" should give pause for thought. Surely, Israel's international behavior even if unjust in Lebanon, does not rate as the most bellicose in the world. Perhaps dozens of countries "love peace" much less than Israel, yet the Arabs singled out the Jewish state. Had the expulsion issue come to a vote, judging from past patterns of U. N. voting on Israel-related issues the Arab League might well have received considerable worldwide support,. The voting records of France, Italy and other...
...have so far avoided the law. Recent indictments may lower that figure, but congressional studies show that it would be almost impossible--not to mention grossly wasteful--to rope in a significant portion of the violators. To continue with the current half-hearted, selective prosecution policy would be unjust...
...unjust that the blame for the atrocity hailed down upon Israelis alone. The Christian militiamen who actually did the evil work were rarely mentioned. Presumably, that kind of Hobbesian savagery comes so naturally to them that it hardly bears remarking. There was a strange compliment concealed here. The world accused Israel so violently in part because the massacre profoundly violated Israel's own moral standards. Some of the vitriol, too, was just anti-Semitism dressed up to look like righteous indignation...
Friday. A salutary touch of malice gloriously unjust. She describes a visit to Novelist Elizabeth Bowen in Ireland, where other guests included Critic Cyril Connolly and wife: "There we spent one night, unfortunately with baboon Connolly & his gollywog slug wife Jean...