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January 25, 2013

Western View of Israeli Politics Is Wrong

Barry Rubin, Ottawa Citizen

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Israel has just held a thoroughly democratic election with remarkably little rancour, extremism, or ideology in the midst of the world's longest conflict and in the world's most turbulent region. That is the kind of signal achievement the world should be accurately understanding and appreciating.

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TAGGED: Middle East, Yesh Atid, Yair Lapid, Naftali Bennett, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel

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