Maybe all parties--including the supposedly Westward-leaning dynastic ruler of Syria, Bashar Assad--soon will accept a modus vivendi allowing war-weary peoples to live better.

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They have extended the opportunity of self-government to peoples that have suffered tyranny and war.

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That would be -- well, that would also be an essential step towards neutralizing forces of evil and war that threaten all peoples.

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Today war between these two peoples is unthinkable.

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Unlike other peoples craving national self-determination after the first world war, the Jews were dispersed and had no territorial base.

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Not so long ago a small piece of land on the edge of a continent was at war, torn by religious and cultural differences, with its two peoples disputing the ownership of the land that both claimed as rightfully theirs.

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The British abandoned the two peoples, to whom they had made irreconcilable promises, to settle their quarrel by war.

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