Recent events make this protestation even less believable than it was at the time.

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One such protestation is a critique of rankings, authored by Robert J.

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China, for one, has so far sided with North Korea's protestation that this was a satellite launch, pure and simple.

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Aside from the vast difference between Europe's treatment of its Muslims today and its Jews 60 years ago, there is the issue Oz-Salzberger's protestation that those Jews and today's Muslims are comparable in and of themselves.

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