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It said there was optimism among Israeli diplomats, who hadn't expected President Hafez Assad to make such a pro-Israel gesture before the Golan Heights were returned to Syria, but skepticism among others who saw it as a psychological tactic to soften up Israeli public opinion into accepting territorial concessions.
You know, the professional pundit, who is supposed to know whether (and how) we should have intervened in Rwanda, who should win the Oscar for best cinematography this year, what revisions should be made to the method of GNP calculations, what concessions the baseball owners should accept, and so on.
On the other hand, the brutal but undeniably charming Milosevic, the man most responsible for starting the Yugoslav civil war, saves the accord with territorial concessions at the last moment.
He pressed Johnson for concessions on certain Reconstruction issues in exchange for his vote and those of other fence sitters.
In 99 percent of his songs, Jerome Kern's music was written before the words, and he was notorious for declining to accommodate his lyricists--no extra notes so that an ingenious word might be made to fit, and certainly no concessions to literal meaning in his melody or harmony.