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Israel is supposed to be a Jewish country. Gershom Gorenberg asks what that means now that Israel is deporting what Netanyahu calls "illegal infiltrators."

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The great airlift is on. Around the time I tap out the last word of this post, a plane will take off from Israel carrying South Sudanese refugees—the people whom Benjamin Netanyahu calls "illegal infiltrators"—back to their home country.

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