Israeli Acting Ambassador David Peleg told reporters Wednesday that any U.N. action would only deepen the polarization between the two sides.

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It only arms critics, and heightens the polarization between fans of gay rights on one side and gun rights on the other.

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The next day, on Monday, 6 April, the Secretary-General addressed the Second Forum of the Alliance of Civilizations, a joint Spanish-Turkish initiative under United Nations auspices that seeks to explore the roots of polarization between societies and cultures today and to recommend a practical programme of action to address them.

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The sharp polarization, combined with fear, between left and right that was a legacy of the fascist period of Mussolini from 1917 to 1943, returned first in the form of a huge wave of strikes in the late 1960s and early 1970s, and then in a deadly form of political violence.

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