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Perhaps most significant, the hegemony of a single party that had ruled Israel for decades had been broken. The Right, long relegated to the political desert, had ended Labor’s grip on the nation’s politics and policies. Israelis now had options as they charted their nation’s future. More often than not, what would determine how they voted was how

After U.S. intelligence agencies released evidence showing that Assad’s army had fired canisters of sarin gas into residential neighborhoods on August 21, Obama signaled his intention to punish Assad for crossing America’s one clear “red line.” Yet, despite widespread outrage over the deaths, the White House could not muster the political support f

One reason there aren’t all that many terror attacks may be that there aren’t all that many terrorists. It is very difficult to get a head count of terrorists, but one commonly cited estimate is that Al Qaeda had only about 500 to 1,000 operatives at its peak.79 This figure includes hangers-on and wannabes, as well as the people engaged in all the

In this way the notion of extremism comes to mean virtually everything except what is, in fact, extreme: tyranny.

Further complicating our understanding of this group, 55 percent of them agree with the statement, “The US military should support Vladimir Putin and Russia in their special military operation in Ukraine.”

majority wanted to see the Palestinians enjoy the right to self-determination, but not at the cost of denying Israelis the most fundamental right: to life. They looked around the Middle East and saw the overthrow of corrupt, nonelected Arab rulers and their replacement by Islamist radicals.

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