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Left Behind: Why a New Party Won’t Save Social Democracy in Israel

November 19th, 2008 · 2 Comments · Politics and Policy

Haim Watzman Ha’aretz has been going ga-ga over the impending new left-wing party that will incorporate Meretz, a few old Labor hands, and some literary figures who have long acted as the collective conscience of the Israeli left. The newspaper also devoted several pages of its Friday opinion supplement to the age-old question of whither [...]

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