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Powerless Power

March 31, 2016

In terms of his straightforward control over the mechanisms of policymaking, Benjamin Netanyahu has become an incredibly powerful prime minister. Yet in another, perhaps more important sense, Netanyahu’s growing influence reflects the very opposite of power. It is rooted in the shrunken horizons of Israeli politics, in the fact that political parties have lost the […]