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I was fortunate to attend the 100th anniversary in Washington of the American Jewish Committee, which had been a mixed experience for me. On the one hand I admired a community firmly bonded around a culture of humanistic values, culturally sensitive and influential. But I also had a manifest anxiety toward the Arab/Muslim world devastated by wars, whose very existence is threatened by backward- looking thoughts, mainly radical Islamism.
A historic tragedy is at play before our own eyes: Another Munich, when some European democracies thought they could avoid the war by appeasing Nazism. Winston Churchill said: "You accepted shame to avoid war, now you will have both." History's verdict was simply merciless.See the full content of this document
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Islamism Threat to Democracy
Today, Arab but also Western diplomats are making the same mistake toward the "green fascism." Thus, their "smart" strategy will consist in involving these groups in a democratic process; Islamists woul...
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