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.

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What the state of Israel has done in Lebanon was necessity, as was the case in Gaza, the West Bank, even in the Sinai long ago.

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Scrooge, the boy, because a victim of that, believed that want was an ontological necessity, rather than a tragic by-product of state planning.

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The President, as you heard in the State of the Union and throughout the first year, discuss the need and the necessity to get that economy moving again, and then to transition to address our mid- and long-term fiscal challenges.

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In the age of Honest Obama, Israel is alone in recognizing the necessity of preventing Iran from acquiring the means to destroy the Jewish state.

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For history tells us that the American Revolution was a radical departure from the normal state of affairs in which those in power determined the common good, and individual liberty by necessity had to yield to the needs of society.

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" (1) Gorbachev told the Central Committee on Christmas day that: "The current party and state leadership will not permit the breakup of the federal state....If we cross this line, we will deliberately be heading toward the disintegration of the Soviet Union....Harsh necessity requires actions to preserve the state and secure its unity.

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The necessity of isolating rather than negotiating with Syria as long as it remains a state-sponsor of terrorism.

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The necessity of isolating -- rather than negotiating with -- Syria as long as it remains a state-sponsor of terrorism.

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