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Palestine Comes to CourtPHILADELPHIA – When, on December 31, the Palestinian Authority took the unprecedented step of applying to join the International Criminal court (ICC), Israel was quick to criticize the move as a provocation undermining any hope for peace.

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Without provocation, suddenly she attacked, against her Prime Minister's orders, the next-door neighbor's oil fields.

[A provocation from Danny Hillis:] [It's time to start talking about engineering our climate] What if there was a way to build a thermostat that allowed you to turn down the temperature of the earth anytime you wanted?

And sometimes, he and his cohort would chant that provocation the entire school bus ride, 45 minutes up, 45 minutes back: "Percy!

So, what started as a bit of an inside joke with myself and a willful provocation, has become a thing.

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