“Netanyahu, dumped his ally, the generally respected defense minister Moshe Ya’alon, and replaced him with his foe, the generally reviled Avigdor Liberman”

JERUSALEM POST
Democracy in Turmoil
by Melanie Phillips
May 26, 2016

The West is convulsing over a crisis of democracy…The reasons vary country by country. In Europe, it’s the scale of mass migration from the developing world and the fear of Islamization. In Britain, concerns about the loss of national self-government as well as unsustainable levels of European-linked immigration have provoked next month’s referendum on continued EU membership. In America, widespread disgust with crony capitalism and a corresponding public swing toward isolationism and protectionism have fueled both the persistent support for Bernie Sanders and the unstoppable rise of Donald Trump. READ MORE

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