Emulating kidnappings in Syria, Jawad painted an abducted Santa in ragged clothes, kneeling on his knees at gunpoint

Mahmoud, her eleven year old son, kneels and cradles her as we loosen her head scarf, calming her with reassurances that that they re all safe and that he loves her.

And, true, no Japanese prime minister has yet fallen to his knees in Nanjing the way Chancellor Willy Brandt did on the site of the Warsaw Ghetto, where he apologized for the crimes of Germany by saying, No people can escape from their history.