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December 27, 2012

Don't Let Pro-Israel Extremists Sink Hagel

James Besser, New York Times

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POLITICAL movements that depend on broad popular support but are driven by extremists can eventually become self-destructive — a lesson the Republican Party learned at great cost in November, and which the gun-rights lobby may be about to learn in the wake of the latest school shooting.

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