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It does sound bad, especially given the 2,000 year history of Jewish persecution by cranky Christians.
At the moment, Washington and Beijing are pummeling each other over: the Chinese Embassy bombing, the Chinese espionage detailed in the Cox report, American technology export policies, the renewal of China's normal trade (formerly most favored nation) status, China's application to join the World Trade Organization, American support for Taiwanese democracy, American sympathy for the Dalai Lama, the burgeoning military alliance between the United States and Japan, China's friendship with North Korea, China's wavering endorsement of nuclear nonproliferation, China's persecution of democrats, China's persecution of Christians, and China's surging anti-Americanism.
It illustrates the influence of the émigrés on postwar American art and exposes American reluctance to rescue the artists from Nazi persecution.
A U.N. tribunal found five ethnic Croats guilty of "persecution" and crimes against humanity for their role in ethnic cleansing in Bosnia.
Often, the man is nonviolent, but is coerced through persecution or abuse into killing his enemy, often a Texas Ranger, and must escape to the border.