Israel will forever be the oppressor no matter how many murders terrorists commit.

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It is ridiculous to blame the antagonism on religious partisans, for men always desire to be the oppressor rather than the oppressed.

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But most southern African governments seem inclined to side with the oppressor.

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An Apache pilot will be hard pressed to make the right call on whether to strike a convoy that could contain the oppressor or the oppressed.

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She fell in love with the city and its people and recorded a paean of praise, first in French and then in German, the language of the former oppressor.

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Thus we should not allow the dramatic power of the most visible narrative, the struggle between oppressed and oppressor, to drown out the sad reality of another less noble story line -- namely that this is still, at least for now, a sectarian conflict.

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Is the Irish miracle--Ireland now has a greater per capita income than its former oppressor, England--only a mirage?

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