If we insist on absolute justice, the reckoning of lives will never end. All we can talk about is beneficial justice, beneficial for both sides-that is, a territorial compromise and the continuation of the conflict at the negotiating table.

— Shulamith Hareven The Vocabulary of Peace: Life, Culture, and Politics in the Middle East (1995)

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