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The growth of inequality leaves ideological
defenders
of capitalism unfazed.
The UN could take the next step by sending in a mission to review, monitor, and call for an end to abductions and torture, and to protect human rights
defenders.
Other
defenders
of localism design less xenophobic and more instrumental strategies; they can work with the party of globalization as long as they find subsidies and social protection.
Defenders
of liberal democracy must debate the populists not to change the populists’ minds, but to make the public understand what each party really stands for, not simply against.
Consider the violence unleashed against the environmental
defenders
protesting the Dakota Access Pipeline in the United States.
After all, in 2015, Kenya’s government voted in the UN General Assembly, along with just 13 others, against a United Nations resolution calling for the protection of human-rights
defenders.
A similar court should do the same for crimes against the environment and its
defenders.
Defenders
of democracy must now determine not only how to create jobs and ensure material prosperity for today’s young people, but also how to feed their souls on the way.
Defenders
of low rates for capital owners argue that it minimizes “double” taxation of corporate income – first of the corporation and then of its shareholders.
Israel’s
defenders
are right to point out that public opinion in Europe, and to a much lesser extent in the United States, tends to be much more critical of Israeli atrocities in Gaza than about bloodier violence committed by Muslims against Muslims in other parts of the Middle East.
Defenders
of these ill-fated cross-border takeovers worry that a sinister whiff of the twentieth century’s worst moments is in the air.
Until and unless they do, protectionists will posture – successfully if perhaps unjustly – as
defenders
of the poor and of the planet.
But the presumption in favor of light financial-sector regulation now has few
defenders.
Exploiting this deepening Sunni-Shia divide, ISIS recruiters and leaders present themselves as
defenders
of all true Muslims against Islam’s supposed ideological and religious enemies, including the West.
Neither the APA nor its
defenders
seem to have learned from this experience.
Defenders
of the French system quibble over labor-cost statistics in their efforts to prove that France is not so different from its main European trading partners.
Journalists, researchers, and human-rights
defenders
can use the data to inform their work as well.
In the United States, some of the fiercest
defenders
of hardline Zionism are evangelical Christians who firmly believe that Jews who refuse to convert to Christianity will one day face terrible retribution.
A group called
Defenders
of Wildlife has been running an ad graphically highlighting Palin’s support for shooting wolves from aircraft.
Emmanuel Macron’s victory in the French presidential election should encourage
defenders
of a liberal order, which, despite its deficiencies, still represents the most attractive and flexible paradigm for international relations.
Defenders
of Catholic teaching would answer that in the latter case, the patient intends to end his life, and that is wrong, whereas in the former case, the patient merely intends to avoid the additional burden that treatment brings.
But its
defenders
are willing to claim victory on the basis of the weakest possible evidence: the economy is no longer collapsing, so austerity must be working!
In the year that the Socialists are celebrating the fortieth anniversary of the May 1968 demonstrations against de Gaulle, they are also trying to steal his diplomatic clothes by proclaiming themselves the
defenders
of the independent French foreign policy that he championed.
In short, had economists gone public with the caveats, uncertainties, and skepticism of the seminar room, they might have become better
defenders
of the world economy.
As is true in North Africa, local populations in Syria and Iraq loath foreign jihadists, whom they view as mercenaries seeking power and wealth, rather than true
defenders
of Islam.
The
defenders
of each of these theories are, in Parfit’s vivid phrase, “climbing the same mountain on different sides.”
But, back in 1999, when faced with a Russian veto of a potential Security Council resolution in the case of Kosovo, NATO used force anyway, and many
defenders
argued that, legality aside, the decision was morally justified.
Defenders
of the current policy argue that Israel cannot afford to negotiate from a position of weakness.
The elite of Pakistan, Ali Talpur continues, “subscribing to a statist and militarist ideology,” became “the self-appointed
defenders
of Islam,” and “even the brigands of Islamic history” were accorded the status of heroes, creating an illusion of invincibility and grandeur that is “not in any way in keeping with reality.”
The government should recognize environmental defenders’ heightened vulnerability and uphold their rights to the land they are protecting.
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