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The two sides must step back, look at the situation dispassionately, acknowledge thedeficiencies in the protocols, address the other side’s minimum requirements, and bear in mind that a single document will not heal all wounds or wipe out all fears.
It strikes at a person’s soul, leaving wounds to our self-confidence and ability to trust others that can be even more painful and profound.
In all of these places, an overstretched and under-resourced humanitarian sector has been thrust into the front line, salving some of the worst wounds of the record-breaking number of people displaced from their homes by conflict and disaster.
The real tragedy is that Poland now faces the danger of reopening the old wounds.
These wounds cannot be instantly healed.
And last week, when Brussels faced a terrorist attack on its airport and a metro station, the emergency services personnel chose the same word, calling for the treating of “war wounds.”
The Cultural Revolution at 40Mao’s Cultural Revolution was launched 40 years ago this month, yet, despite 20 years of economic liberalization, its wounds remain a taboo subject.
Over the centuries, the main culprit in mass food poisoning often has been contamination of unprocessed crops by fungal toxins – a risk that is exacerbated when insects attack food crops, opening wounds that allow fungi (molds) to get a foothold.
When emotions run free, former affections can quickly turn into spite and a desire to inflict deep wounds.
It is thus in both sides’ interest not to inflict deep wounds, instigate confrontations, or embarrass and threaten the other side.
And Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s visit in December to the Yasukuni Shrine, which honors Japan’s war dead – including, since 1978, its most serious convicted war criminals – has re-opened long-festering wounds among Japan’s neighbors, who perceive a lack of sincere contrition for waging aggressive war and committing wartime atrocities.
The economic balm applied to old social and cultural wounds is losing its effectiveness.
As old wounds fester, new issues have begun roiling bilateral relations.
In the weeks that have passed since Voinea’s dramatic reopening of old wounds, more and more people have come to think that Romania cannot afford to continue wallowing in this dispute.
If the government succeeds in crushing its opponents, the wounds will fester for years, if not decades.
The Union’s common foreign and security policy may not yet mean that Europe speaks to the world with one voice, but it is taking shape and has already healed some of the wounds inflicted by disagreements over the war in Iraq.
As a new form of “self strengthening,” a cause that Chinese reformers embraced at the end of the 19th century, China needs to stop brandishing old wounds and instead of demanding apologies as an aggrieved party, seek a new, equal status that the rest of the world, including America, is ready to confer.
That promising development is being endangered by a fevered electoral nationalism which seeks to gain votes by promising to reopen old wounds and settle old scores.
Meanwhile, the European Union’s severe, self-inflicted wounds have evidently left it too weak to develop an alternative to its crumbling status quo.
Ultimately, the historical wounds that have long divided China and Japan, and the more current diplomatic flashpoints that the global media inevitably trumpet, only tell part of the Sino-Japanese story.
In the early 1990s, chemical analyses confirmed the oil's valuable nutritional and dermatological properties -- including as a treatment for acne, wrinkles, and light wounds.
The question now - one that few are willing to ask openly - is: will the downward economic spiral reopen the wounds of the past - and renew conflicts that are unbearable to even think about?
At that time, the French army was licking its wounds from the defeat at Sedan and the creation of Bismarck's imperial Germany.
Many European leaders are still smarting and licking their wounds.
The Washington Post gave readers actual video footage of the abusive interrogation of a Canadian minor, Omar Khadr, who was seen showing his still-bleeding abdominal wounds, weeping and pleading with his captors.
On the contrary, de Gaulle believed that France’s deep historical wounds could be healed only through engagement with Germany.
While the trauma is no longer acute, as it was in 2009, wounds remain – and they are breeding new pathologies.
In Europe, the banks’ wounds must be closed – weak banks must be shut down or merged with stronger banks – before recovery can begin.
Kishi and his counterparts in the US and Europe saw that a different and better future was available only by refusing to rage against the past and poke at its wounds, even the radioactive wounds of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
There have also been reports, more often on the Internet than in the press, about despairing Lebanese doctors, who, not recognizing the wounds patients have sustained after Israeli air strikes, have described what they see and asked colleagues around the world for help.
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