None has any interest in providing Mr Sharon or America with the quiescence demanded.Scorned as a partner and bereft of a successor, Mr Arafat is desperately seeking ways out.
Indeed, many military analysts are perplexed by the FARC's relative quiescence since Mr Uribe took office: they believe the FARC, which numbers around 18,000, may be reorganising to switch from semi-conventional warfare in rural areas to urban terrorism.Despite his public support, Mr Uribe faces a political battle on his measures.
Back in 1837, Lord Overstone, a British economist, described the economy's "established cycle" from a "state of quiescence" through "growing confidence...overtrading, convulsion, distress" finally "ending again in quiescence".
The statement prompted criticism from former Israeli negotiators, America and the EU, as well as Palestinians, though John Kerry, America's secretary of state, urged the Palestinians not to react adversely to the plans and called on all parties to proceed with the talks.But perhaps the strongest reason for the quiescence of the national-religious is fear of losing their clout.
In 1998 Charles Bean of the London School of Economics, who later became the bank's chief economist, calculated that inflation was likely to be more than a percentage point away from the target around 40% of the time.The reasons for the unusual quiescence of inflation over the past decade are keenly debated.
The impact of this downturn is quieter a kind of quiescence.
The change has been in the dynamics of when, and perhaps how, this takes place.One important cause of the recent quiescence of wage pressure may be that prices in general are being held down for other reasons.
Its quiescence may have something to do with the political success of Sinn Fein, which has done well both sides of the border.
One reason is the quiescence of wages; even with unemployment falling in Britain, for example, annual wage growth is just 0.9%.
But what if some parts of the economy grow in confidence prematurely, before the economy as a whole has returned to quiescence?
Palestinian officials say that the militants' relative quiescence is not because of the barrier but because of negotiations, via Egyptian diplomats, to ensure an orderly withdrawal of Israelis from Gaza when the time comes.But Palestinian frustration and misery are as strongly felt as ever.
