Others still have trouble confronting their own history.

Palestinians see their history as one of struggle against Zionism and Israel.

But in China they look generation after generation because they remember the very embarrassing period, for 100 years, when they went backwards.

And you take those data, and we find the patients like him, and we bring their data together. And we bring their histories into it.

It may just be that the Palestinians are on the verge of a new chapter in their history and in the history of Israel and the whole region as well.

Feijenoord won the double for the first time in their history in 1965, and managed to win another double a few years later in 1969.

They did not have a written language, and passed their history and other cultural knowledge along to each generation through oral tradition.

Until recently, too, many Europeans believed in their kings and queens, flew their national flags, sang their national anthems, were taught heroic versions of their national histories.

Egyptians witnessed the most unexpected verdict in the history of their judiciary system Billionaire Hesham Talaat Moustafa, along with his hired hitman Mohsen El Sokary, have both been sentenced to death for their roles in the murder of Lebanese singer Suzanne Tameem.

It is tempting for Europeans to project their own history onto Asia and to view current developments there as a mere repetition, if not an imitation, of what occurred in Europe.

Estemirova, a key activist in Chechnya for the group Memorial, which is determined to inform Russians about the truth of their modern history, investigated abductions and extrajudicial killings.

Palestinians see their history as one of struggle against Zionism and Israel. But the reality is more complicated, and marked by repeated failures to create a coherent body politic, even when historical opportunities beckoned.

Some Japanese still want to write or believe fairy tales about their pre war and wartime history, which has hugely complicated Japan s efforts to find a confident and lasting reconciliation with China.

Those who assume that the obsolescent diplomacy of the twentieth century as it is described by today s global network enthusiasts was conducted entirely behind closed doors by elites have got their history wrong.

This film also speaks to the Iranian people in asking them to return to their history and look at themselves before they were so Islamicized in the way we looked, in the way we played music, in the way we had intellectual life.

Last week, on 25 November, following an agreement by both sides on movement and access, the President of the Palestinian Authority formally reopened the Gaza Strip's border crossing with Egypt, thus giving the Palestinians control over one of their frontiers for the first time in their history.

Those who know their history will recognize that Summers is reviving an argument advanced by the American economist Alvin Hansen in 1938. Owing to a slowdown in population growth, and thus lower demand for capital, the world, Hansen claimed, faced a problem of secular, or structural, unemployment in the decades before us.

And I really understood what patient capital meant emotionally in the last month or so. Because the company was literally 10 days away from proving that the product they produced was at the world quality level needed to make Coartem, when they were in the biggest cash crisis of their history.

Three times in their history in 1937,1947, and 2000 the Palestinians were offered a state, and three times their leaders failed to meet the challenge admittedly never an easy one for a nation built on such an unwavering ethos of dispossession.