Tzipi Livni, of the centrist Kadima party, and Labour leader Ehud Barak both say they are believers in the creation of a Palestinian state, seeing it as a necessity if Israel is to remain both democratic and Jewish in character in the face of Palestinian population growth.
The majority of Danish politicians intuitively believe that capitalists are an unpleasant necessity to generate the revenues to fund the social welfare state.
For history tells us that the American Revolution was a radical departure from the normal stateof affairs in which those in power determined the common good, and individual liberty by necessity had to yield to the needs of society.