Session #97 · 1981–83

Speech #970247950

I was awake all night crying and despairing. What will become of us? What is happening to us?" That plaintive question could easily have come from a Palestinian woman grieving for her lost family following the massacre of Arab men. women. and children in the Palestinian refugee camps south of Beirut. In fact. the anguished speaker was an Israeli woman in Jerusalem who. the night before. had watched the television pictures of the aftermath of the killings by the Israelibacked Lebanese Christian militiamen. We all have read accounts of the torment in Israel. the torment within the Jewish community in this country. and the torment among the supporters of Israel over this tragedy.
Keywords matched
refugee

Classification

Target group
Sentiment
Negative
Stereotyping
No
Confidence
90%
Model
gemini-2.0-flash
Framing
Victim Humanitarian

Speaker & context

Speaker
ROBERT BYRD
Party
D
Chamber
S
State
WV
Gender
M
Date
1982-10-01
Speech ID
970247950
Paragraph
#1
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