With New Leaders and New Challenges, the U.S. and Israel Need to Renew Their Sense of Common Purpose
The Jewish state can defend American interests, even when America is unwilling or unable to do so.
September 9, 2021
Will the desire to recreate imperial Persia outweigh shared hostility to the U.S.?
When the Taliban rose to power in the 1990s, it was greeted with hostility by the neighboring Islamic Republic. The Shiite mullahs who ruled Iran were particularly enraged by the Sunni mujahideen’s vicious persecution of Afghan Shiites. But more recently, explains Dore Gold, there have been signs of a somewhat more cooperative relationship:
The Jewish state can defend American interests, even when America is unwilling or unable to do so.
A controlled form of extortion.
Will the desire to recreate imperial Persia outweigh shared hostility to the U.S.?
And why he believed religion was a prerequisite for democracy.
Precisely as prohibited in the Torah.
When the Taliban rose to power in the 1990s, it was greeted with hostility by the neighboring Islamic Republic. The Shiite mullahs who ruled Iran were particularly enraged by the Sunni mujahideen’s vicious persecution of Afghan Shiites. But more recently, explains Dore Gold, there have been signs of a somewhat more cooperative relationship:
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