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Israel’s liberals should consider a Faustian bargain - on strict conditions

Israel’s liberals should consider a Faustian bargain - on strict conditions

The Jewish state will not make it to 2048 unless its squabbling factions work together to address fatal problems

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Dec 06, 2022
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It is a grand question of parliamentary democracy: should the losers join the victors as junior partners in a broad coalition held together by spit, rubber bands and saccharine talk of “unity”? 

To do so is usually a Faustian bargain, a weaselly grasping for remnants of power that shatters credibility and harms futur…

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