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Likud, Meet Lieberman

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Peter Beinart argues that it might be too late to keep Avigdor Lieberman's anti-democratic politics from taking over the Israeli right.

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Close to four years ago, Avigdor Lieberman became Israel’s foreign minister, and with a few laudable exceptions, the American Jewish establishment shrugged. “There is nothing in his speeches that indicates someone who would threaten the shared values that we have,” insisted

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