Though they have continued this month to transfer most of the customs dues that provide the bulk of the PA's funding, Israeli ministers insist that henceforth they will not deal with any Palestinian government, whatever its composition, if it is underwritten by Hamas, which it regards as an irredeemable terrorist group.
An anti-communist to make all others fade, convinced that the Soviets were irredeemable cheats and liars, determined never to deal with Fidel Castro's Cuba but to make sure the tyrant left it "in a vertical position or a horizontal position", preferably the latter.
The difference in cultures left him dumbfounded: "Where I came from, you got a room in a motel, spent ten hours making a lavish and possibly irredeemable mess of it, and left early the next morning," he wrote.
The very unJapanese event that took place on September 11th a snap general election called on a policy issue and won in spectacular fashion by the reformist prime minister, Junichiro Koizumi has changed perceptions of Japan as an irredeemable dud, but not much.
Some have notional lifetimes of 60 years, whereas others are supposedly irredeemable, meaning that the principal is never repaid and the bond keeps paying interest forever.
These developments produced what Mr Hewett terms modern music's "irredeemable multiplicity".
Ultimately, though, it was the fact that he channelled popular disdain for the political class and portrayed his two rivals as irredeemable fixtures of it that stole the show.The implications of the Lib Dem surge could be historic.
In a bid to redeem a body which sceptics had called irredeemable, it announced its intention to seek one of the 47 seats on the United Nations Human Rights Council.The council was established in 2006 in the hope that a new structure would avoid the worst flaws of its predecessor, the Human Rights Commission, where notorious dictatorships seemed to do most of the talking.
After all, it isn't every day that a true villain is vanquished especially one as irredeemable as Al Dunlap.
Unlike ordinary ones, they tend to exaggerate failures and gloss over success: sacked ministers are "disgraced", defeated leaders irredeemable losers.
Both Japan and Germany, once thought unstoppable and then, not so many years later, irredeemable, now seem poised to recover, and Britain's sorry post-war performance has been forgotten in the euphoria of the past 15 years.
