Evidences of unrealistic optimism calls for a better way of delivering the message for repatriation in a way that takes into account the fact that there exists violence-free area where Alert Level 4, for instance, does not seem to make sense to OFWs.
Blaming victims, perpetuating the myth that accusations are lies, and denying that rape exists encourages violence against women.
Although discrimination exists and violence is not unheard of, in Mexico City there seems to be less pull from the Catholic Church than other parts of Mexico.
It belittles feminists' true legitimate and serious concerns - that the pay gap still exists, that violence against women is at crisis levels, that women's caring roles are so undervalued, that women are still woefully underrepresented in positions of power.
As she wrote of the "Saved" controversy, "The objectors deny, with frightening violence, that such violence exists".
Hamas declines to recognize Israel's right to exist, renounce violence or accept previous accords signed between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
Israel, like the apartheid state in South Africa, cannot exist without violence because millions of people who live under its direct rule do not consent to it, and cannot be made to consent to it.
Both Israel and the United States, as well as the European Union, classify Hamas as a terrorist organization, and Hamas has refused international demands that it recognize Israel's right to exist, forswear violence and accept all previous Israeli-Palestinian agreements.
They say the flow of money will not resume until there is a Palestinian government that recognises Israel's right to exist, halts violence and accepts previous peace deals.
America is talking to the moderates, such as Salam Fayyad, the finance minister, but says that it will not restore aid to the PA unless the government meets the three familiar conditions: recognise Israel's right to exist, renounce violence and commit to previous Israel-PA agreements.
All they offered was an end to the collective punishment of the Palestinians incurred by their exercise of democracy if Hamas would comply with the Quartet's conditions of recognizing Israel's right to exist, renouncing violence and honouring all previous agreements between the PLO and Israel.
