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William Ury, founder of the Harvard Program of Negotiation, tells a marvellous story in one of his books.
The books of Exodus and Deuteronomy take a different route altogether.
History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.
The early history of humanity is set out in the Torah as a series of disappointments. God gave human beings freedom, which they then misused