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ether Israel, in the course of its 65-year history, has any great achievements to its credit, or whether it has ever enhanced America's position in the Middle East, are not questions of any real interest to him. What he wants above all is to see his own country make amends for America's past support of Zionist
e and enjoy it." City mayors regularly get twice the approval ratings of national politicians. Modern technology can implement a modern version of Tocqueville's town-hall meetings to promote civic involvement and innovation. An online hyperdemocracy where everything is put to an endless series of public v
blished democracies from above, through globalisation, and below, through the rise of micro- powers, can reinforce rather than undermine democracy. Tocqueville argued that local democracy frequently represented democracy at its best: "Town-meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they b
smuggle a carton of Lucky Strike cigarettes to Israel’s Prime Minister Golda Meir, who he had known from their earliest Zionist days together in the Midwest. Since Justice Goldberg had very few clerks—he served only three terms—he was able to remain close to all of us. He invited us to his famous Passov
esents an inside account of legal events that have altered history and that continue to have a major impact on the lives of millions of people. What Tocqueville observed two centuries ago—that in our country nearly every great issue finds its way into the courts—is even truer today than it was then. According
e Middle East. We created reality; others watched, baffled, paralyzed, afraid. In 1989, Americans gloated as the Soviet Union, our former rival for Middle Eastern supremacy, retreated ignominiously from the region. When Saddam Hussein tried to challenge us from within, we thrashed him in the Gulf War. Throug
of Tsarist Russia it took a lost war (1904/5) and three years of heavy losses (close to two million killed) in another to bring about a revolution. Tocqueville observed that a dictatorial regime faces the greatest danger when it is trying to reform itself. WHY, THEN, WERE Mubarak and Ali ousted so easily
Entities connected to both Middle East and Tocqueville

Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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Marc Rich
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Department of Justice
ORGANIZATIONLeon Black
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Vladimir Putin
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Samantha Power
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Prince Charles
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Jerusalem
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Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Vietnam
LOCATIONthe West Bank
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Mahmoud Abbas
PERSONthe Soviet Union
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Michael Douglas
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Fatah
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