Yet still, doves on both sides acknowledge that peace is hardly around the corner.

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Despite the sentiments of the public, there is a class of Israeli leaders that acts as though peace is just around the corner and that the public expects them to deliver it.

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It was wrong because in behaving as they did, they showed extraordinary disrespect for the 92 percent of Israelis who do not share their professed belief that peace is just around the corner.

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Politicians promise the public "hope" based on illusions of peace-around-the-corner to win their votes.

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In 1999, at the height of the crisis in Kosovo, Richard gave an interview in which he addressed the question of why the United States was engaged in bringing peace to that war-torn corner of the world.

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Reading a speech on his behalf, the Jordanian prime minister said the Saudi initiative constituted "a corner-stone of a comprehensive peace in the region, and that Israel is putting obstacles in its way".

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Because this evening, we welcome, not the statesmen who decide great questions of war and peace, but citizens -- men and women from every corner of our country, from every rank of our military, every branch of our service -- who answer the call, who go to war, who defend the peace.

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