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July 10, 2012

Israel's Democratic Revolution

Matthew Ackerman, Contentions

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As the Arab Spring drifts away from its democratic promise, there is one place in the Middle East where democracy is proving both resilient and capable of responding to a nation’s most intractable difficulties: Israel.

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