English to Polish Art/Literary Poetry & Literature

Np. tu:
In doing our study, we do understand that there are two elephants in the room— I guess a term I shouldn't use, donkeys, gorillas [laughter]--that we do, in fact, talk about a little but obviously is not central to us, but we recognize the existence of, and that's the Arab-Israeli conflict. And what we think should happen is that the United States should promote peace regardless of democratic progress. And there needs to be the promotion of democracy regardless of the prospects for peace. These are two very important goals, and they don't need to be a zero-sum game; they need to go on in parallel. In some ways, it paraphrases the very important statement that [Israeli] Prime Minister [Yitzhak] Rabin used to make, which is that the Israelis had to fight terrorism as if there were no peace process and support the peace process as if there were no terrorism, because you can't then decide that one trumps the other; they go together.
http://www.cfr.org/publication/8178/promoting_reform_in_the_...

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