41.   Arab diplomacy was nowhere to be seen in the international arena to end these unjustified forms of collective punishment that seems to only target the Arabs.

42.   Arafat has repeatedly denounced the prolonged closure as collective punishment.

43.   Arafat has insisted that Israel first lift its closure, which he said constituted collective punishment.

44.   But many Palestinians here protested that they supported peace with Israel and condemned the bombings, but were having their own lives torn apart by collective punishment.

45.   But Palestinians call the mass arrests a form of collective punishment, meant to intimidate and humiliate them.

46.   Certainly isolation and collective punishment are not the way to reform regimes that are accused of not being democratic.

47.   Civilians have been expelled following guerrilla attacks on Israeli and SLA forces in what appeared to be collective punishment of the local population.

48.   Civilians have been expelled following guerrilla attacks on Israeli and SLA forces in what appeared to be collective punishment of the local population, the report said.

49.   He denied it constituted collective punishment, as the Palestinians and human rights groups have charged.

50.   He dismissed Palestinian complaints that the restrictions constituted collective punishment.