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The Unbearable Conceit of False Comparisons Between Israel and America
Why are so many seemingly intelligent pundits, activists and academics, from the right and the left, so insistent on foisting U.S. frameworks of political thinking on Israel? Ignorance and opportunism are only part of the answer
Next Thursday’s event at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem has been circled in red ink for months on the calendars of every aspiring member of Israel’s right-wing intelligentsia. It’s the "Israeli Conservatism" conference where exponents of reining in the bloated public sector, the rapaciously activist court system and the radical progressives who apparently dominate Israel.
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