Now they break all its carved work down with hatchet and hammers.

By contrast, consider the way France and Germany have buried the hatchet and learned to live in peace and trust.

And right on top of the nearest coconut tree, with a hatchet in one hand and a cell phone in the other, was a local toddy tapper, who proceeded to bring down the coconuts for us to drink.

A voice replied I m here we looked up, and there he was, on top of the nearest coconut tree, with his lungi tied up at his knees, a hatchet in one hand and a cellphone in the other.

It is time for the protagonists to see reason and bury the hatchet once and for all so that both the Israeli and the Palestinian peoples whose future is truly at stake may finally coexist in peace and security.

By contrast, consider the way France and Germany have buried the hatchet and learned to live in peace and trust. It is this extraordinary, historic act that made possible the reconstruction and successful development of Europe over the last half century.

Today there may be a hope that in the near future the veto will become a thing of the past, with the spinning wheel and the bronze hatchet, and will be no more to the peoples than the sign and symbol of a vanished world based on inequality among States, the privileges of power and the denial of the rule of law and morality. (Official Records of the General Assembly, Seventh Session, Plenary Meetings, 384th meeting, para.