Each day, moreover, every Palestinian was subject to systematic humiliation by the occupying Power.

Summits, mechanisms, and meetings have been developed not to humiliate or threaten Russia, but to engage it.

They left the impression that Britain was prepared to humiliate Pakistan publicly in order to curry favor with the Indians.

That way, if the regime balked, it would have to explain to its own people why it was not prepared to abandon its nuclear weapons program, despite a reasonable US proposal that was not designed to humiliate Iran, and that, if accepted, promised a major improvement in Iranian living standards.