In reality, it did both, and deepened the split between the camps holding each view.
This will deepen the split between parties over the crisis, since Dems flatly oppose anything like it.
But however prudently the scheme is framed, it is bound to some extent to deepen the split in Europe, diverting trade away from more natural channels.
On Monday, Iran's Islamic Republic News Agency, a mouthpiece for Mr. Ahmadinejad, deepened the split by publishing the audiotape on its Web site.
Deepening the split that Apfel had opened between the two defendants, Morvillo pointed out that it was Bacanovic, not Stewart, who had urged Faneuil to lie to investigators.
Lang's actions deepened the split in the national Labor Party, leading to Scullin's defeat in 1931, and encouraged the development of the right-wing New Guard movement in opposition to Lang's policies.
Efforts to deepen the split between Hamas and Fatah or between Gaza and the West Bank will compound the disaster, for there can be no security, let alone a peace process, without minimal Palestinian unity and consensus.
"For us, Fayyad is unacceptable because his name is connected with a black phase in the history of the Palestinian people," said Taher al-Nounou, a Hamas official in Gaza, who blamed Mr. Fayyad for deepening the split, closing Hamas institutions in the West Bank and pursuing security cooperation with Israel.
He points to the rarely acknowledged dilemma that, even before the current escalation, giving in to Hamas's demands would have been perceived as a reward for violent "resistance" and would therefore have served to cement Hamas's grip on power and deepen the split between Gaza and the West Bank.
Both factions, with groups aiming at major supremacy, collaborated with the corresponding political forces in Russia, deepening the split in the nation.
