23 July 2018 - NPWJ News Digest on Middle East and North Africa Democracy

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Israel Picks Identity Over Democracy. More Nations May Follow.
by New York Times, 22 Jul 2018

Amid a moment of national euphoria, Israel’s founding prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, emerged from retirement in July 1967 to warn Israelis they had sown the seeds of self-destruction.
Israel had just won a stunning military victory against its neighbors, elating Israelis with a sense that the grand experiment of a Jewish state might really work.

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