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...But of these sophisms and elenchs of merchandise I skill not...
Milton, Areopagitica

Except he had found the
standing sea-rock that even this last
Temptation breaks on; quieter than death but lovelier; peace
that quiets the desire even of praising it.

Jeffers, Meditation On Saviors


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24.7.08

And it must remain undivided:

"Nobody is suffering more than the Palestinian people"
11.Mar.07

"Nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people from the failure of the Palestinian leadership to recognise Israel."
26.Apr.07
OBH
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With [Dennis]Ross at his side, Obama is signalling that we should forget the myth-making: an Obama presidency will be about active, engaged diplomacy, between Israelis and Palestinians, between Israel and Syria, and beyond.
Jonathan Freedland/GuardianUK 23.Jul.08
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Dennis Ross at wikipedia:
During his years of trying to broker Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations he was criticized by people on both sides of the conflict. Palestinians made repeated references to the fact that he is Jewish, and some right-wing conservative Israelis branded him "self-hating" - each questioning his ability to be unbiased.
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Currently, Ross is counselor and Ziegler distinguished fellow of the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He is the first chairman of a new Jerusalem based think tank, the Jewish People Policy Planning Institute, funded and founded by the Jewish Agency.
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Ross is a Foreign Affairs Analyst for the Fox News Channel in addition to being a frequent commentator in The Washington Post and The New York Times. Ross's first column at The New Republic, "Statecraft", was published on April 9, 2007.
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Possible variants, extensions, and explications of Obama's statement(s):

"Nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people from the failure of the Palestinian leadership to recognise Israel as the source of their suffering."

"Nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people from the failure of the Palestinian leadership to recognise Israel as the source of their suffering in its role as righteous agent of the wrath of the Almighty."

"Nobody has suffered more than the Palestinian people from the failure of the Palestinian leadership to recognise Israel as the source of their suffering in its role as righteous agent of the wrath of the Almighty, who only wants peace in the Middle East and prosperity for both sides, and is consequently somewhat blinded by overwhelming frustration at all the violence."

Or... evil is just a relative term, there is no God, and crawling opportunists have taken over every human institution that threatens to cut them out, consequently virtually all human institutions are now under the direct or indirect control of crawling opportunists, who are incapable of running them anywhere but straight into the ground.

Or...life is an illusion perpetuated by inanimate clouds of invisible gas and nanosized particulate matter, with no meaning, no significance, and no possibility of resolution but entropic decline toward absolute stillness.

Or...American politics is as irrecoverably corrupt as Batista's Cuba in the 50's, with no Che no Fidel and no Sierra Maestre.

Or...Obama's a virtual figure, an avatar fielded by the Disney Corporation, which has the best interests of future generations paramount, and is working to get through the selfish resistance and outmoded greediness of the contemporary world by subtlety and subterfuge.

Or..Obama's got baggage, jackets, dirt, and the same blackmailing extortionate thugs who turned Clinton have turned him and will play him all the way through, to the narrow limits of their competence and vision.

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