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EUPJ Newsletter – Nov./Dec. 2016

President’s Message

We have all lived through some tumultuous events in recent months. My new year’s resolution (a little early, I know) is never to predict with any certainty future events. I, as many others did, confidently predicted that Jeremy Corbyn would never be elected leader of the UK Labour party, and that the UK would never vote in a referendum to leave the European Union and that, most certainly, Donald Trump would never be elected the next President of the United States. Oh, how wrong I was! But the people have spoken and we must all remember that, thankfully, all the countries within the European Union as well as Israel and the United States are democracies. I am reminded of the statement made by Winston Churchill that “Democracy is the worst form of government, except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.” So let us be grateful that we still live in democracies and accept that sometimes decisions are taken through the ballot box with which some of us may not agree.

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