Netanyahu and Lieberman should instead face a counter-demand that is pushed not just by Palestinians but by the international community.
Here they settle down to attack the Japanese and, as we know will happen, face a counter-attack at impossible odds.
Blatter and Platini have themselves appealed against the eight-year bans imposed by the ethics committee's adjudicatory chamber last month, but now face a counter-appeal from the investigators who had originally sought a lifetime ban.
Within a few years, he was raising money to buy the paper, only to face a counter-bid from the arriviste Brendan Bracken, who had just bought the Financial News (and who was in his turn to become a close ally of Churchill's, serving him as minister of information in 1941-45).
This is the great problem facing a counter offensive against Isis by Baghdad or the Kurds: it will be seen by the five or six million Sunni Arabs in Iraq as directed against their whole community.
In that context, Face becomes "a counter network, a shadow network, a network of portraits one never sees on Facebook".
China's Communist leaders sought to justify their decision to use violence to crush the pro-democracy protests by claiming they had been facing a "counter-revolutionary riot".
But industry sources this weekend suggest that Johnson faces a counter-bid from Italian rivals at the A-Z restaurant chain, headed by Milan-born Giuliano Lotto.
Until he leaned on Comey and then fired him, he was facing a counter-espionage investigation in which he himself wasn't a formal target.
But at the same time the Democrats will face a formidable counter-offensive mounted from the new House.Like the Democrats, the Republicans will not be able to advance many of their aims by legislation.
