Thus, antipathy for the adversary or his avowed policies cannot justify non compliance with the laws of war.

And another way that you saw, sort of, this sort of, this antipathy towards the Chinese is through documents like this.

Thirdly, the report's conclusions, which point the finger at Syria, depend completely on the credibility of the testimony of people with strongly declared political antipathy to Syria.

In Europe, antipathy to immigrants, or Islam, can quickly switch to hostility toward the European Union, which is seen as yet another bastion of entrenched elites. This is what Wilders and Grillo have in common.

The current era offers a parallel. Although policy has since shifted to reflect supply side economics and real business cycle theory, the new reigning paradigm s builders and promoters display the same antipathy to checking data for serious error.

The latest agreement did halt, or at least interrupt, the eurozone s biggest crisis to date, culminating in an unprecedented period of antipathy, opprobrium, humiliation, pestering, and blackmail within Europe. Indeed, Greece came within a hair s breadth of leaving the eurozone.

Much of the world is wondering how such a successful economy could allow its politics to spin out of control. What accounts for the armies of protesters distinguished, gang like, by the color of their shirts whose mutual antipathy often borders on nihilistic rage?

But the main reason for this new solidarity between Western right wing populists and the state of Israel might lie deeper than shared antipathy toward Islam. No state is static, and Israel has changed a great deal since the heroic decades after its founding in 1948.

Among Republicans this sentiment is, of course, no surprise, given their party s steady rightward drift and consistent antipathy toward President Barack Obama. But it suited a wealthy, noisy braggart who barreled into the race attacking conventional politicians as stupid and insisting that he alone could get things done.

Only a rapid change of course by the Obama administration in 2013 can begin to counteract the enmity toward the US that has been generated by more than a decade of its forces lethal presence in the region. America s drone war, with its wanton destruction of families and communities, is deepening that antipathy.

Across the European Union, fears about globalization and antipathy to integration and immigration have produced massive political fallout, including the failed French and Dutch referenda on the Union s draft constitutional treaty and a de facto moratorium on accession talks with Turkey. The European Council and the Commission have watched helplessly, as if the matter was not in their hands.

Confucian literati, shunning manual labor, grew their fingernails long, but they never displayed antipathy towards the world of affairs. The Chinese myth of success was the bright peasant boy whose village clubbed together to educate him and whose subsequent success resulted in the elevation of all who had helped him on his way into the civil service.

Renewed protests over China s mining investments in Myanmar this week confirmed this trend, one that China s leaders seem either to dismiss as trivial, or to regard as somehow unrelated to their bullying. Indeed, like Russian President Vladimir Putin, who faces widespread public antipathy in Ukraine, China s leaders appear to believe that popular protests against them can only be the product of an American plot.

While her antipathy to German reunification was ill judged, her doubts about the ability to reconcile greater political integration in the European Union with democratic accountability in its member states has gained many more sympathizers over the years and not only in her own country. She pushed for greater integration of the European single market, while questioning whether this really required ceding more political authority to the European Commission.