Thirty-three years of occupation have brutalized the Israeli conscript army, replaced Zionist idealism with cynicism and devalued Israel's self-image.
Their silence, astonishing as it is, is nothing, however, in comparison with the general silence and lack of response to China's 50-year occupation of Tibet, which has brutalized that country and savaged its culture.
"In this new age of participation, the movements for economic justice and police accountability are indivisible because they both exist in the lived experiences of Black people who are confronting the systems of power which have brutalized our communities".
The violence and destruction of recent months has brutalized people on both sides, and aid workers say that in the absence of a legal system, vigilante justice has spread in East Timor.
"We do not support the presence of Syrian government officials who are part of a regime that has brutalized its own citizens," Col. Steven H. Warren, a Baghdad-based spokesman for the American-led coalition, said.
In Sunni areas, the fundamentalist militants of Al Qaeda in Mesopotamia had brutalized and alienated people.
There was no wavering from that script the other day after a State Supreme Court jury in Brooklyn lost little time exonerating three police officers of charges that they had brutalized a man named Michael Mineo in a subway station and then covered it up.
"It's one more step that we can take toward the day that we know will come, the end of the Assad regime that has brutalized the Syrian people".
Yet while the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad has brutalized its citizens for more than a year, Mr. Obama now shows no signs of intervening with force, an option his White House sees leading only to "greater chaos, greater carnage," as Jay Carney, the press secretary, put it this week.
Clearly, the Iranian regime remains a source of instability in the Middle East and has brutalized its own people.
