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Perhaps the lowest-cost way to undermine rivals and attack
enemies
is to launch attacks in cyberspace.
These structural elements have been reinforced by developments in the region, which have reinforced the sense among Israeli voters that they are threatened by numerous enemies: Iran and its nuclear ambitions;Hezbollah and Hamas and their missiles; the rise of ISIS amid state failure in Iraq, Syria, and elsewhere.
Indeed, Turkey’s changing perception of itself has shaped its so-far frustrated drive to serve as a peace broker between Israel and its Arab enemies, Syria and Hamas.
How Trump is Testing DemocracyTOKYO – World leaders seem to be at a loss about how to approach relations with US President Donald Trump, given his worrying positions and often-bizarre behavior toward politicians and the media, allies and
enemies
alike.
The Nazis did not kill the Jews because they wanted their territory – the Jews had none; or because the Jews were followers of a rival religious faith – the Nazis and their henchmen were atheists and
enemies
of all religion.
And any attempt to destroy militarily Iran’s nuclear potential could entangle Israel in a prolonged and exhausting struggle that might unite all the
enemies
of the Jewish state.
Today, as always, we remain the best of friends and the worst of
enemies.
For much of the developing world, the basic instability of international relations – owing to terrorist strikes, guerrilla warfare, and the preemptive wars that America threatens on its
enemies
– is aggravating socioeconomic anxieties and fueling doubts about the benefits of globalization.
They claim that only the journalists on their payroll – who praise their rulers and criticize the regime’s opponents – are legitimate; all others are
enemies
of the state.
But, despite legal prohibitions, slavery proved remarkably resilient, with colonists using subterfuges such as debt peonage, “just wars” (which sanctioned enslavement of captured
enemies
as a more moral outcome than justified slaughter), and other tricks.
As a result, Sunni-led governments that had enjoyed Western support in exchange for generous oil deals – notably, Saudi Arabia and Egypt – became
enemies
of the Shia and their quest, backed by Iran, to regain their dignity and identity.
By implication, all dissenters are
enemies
of the people.
Chinese academia more broadly has been the regime’s chief target in its search for enemies, with universities dismissing professors for espousing “seditious” ideas like constitutionalism.
The country’s ruling coalition, the Ethiopian People’s Revolutionary Democratic Front, dominates the political landscape – but who can blame Ethiopians, surrounded by potential enemies, for giving priority to stability and order over Western-style democratic development?
General Pervez Musharraf, president of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, has few friends and many
enemies.
As a political philosopher, I find democracy's internal
enemies
a true intellectual problem.
We must - to repeat the idea of the German political philosopher Carl Schmitt (no friend of democracy himself) - treat
enemies
as
enemies.
Are today's democracies virtuous enough to rally the energies - including self-sacrifice - needed to defeat their
enemies?
Of course, when
enemies
are already attacking, one cannot afford to ask too many questions.
But when
enemies
are merely threatening, it is better first to assert legitimacy, and thus acquire some credibility at home and abroad.
The British Royal Society advocated creating the German Max Planck Society on the ground that solidarity between international scientific communities could contribute to reconciling former
enemies.
But they also had a strategic military value, because they enabled the Peruvian government to distinguish friends from
enemies
on the ground.
We accept paying a high and inefficient cost for national defense against what are often unknown
enemies.
Given the dangers of unilateralism for the current world order, so do America’s
enemies.
Their political freedom was secured by Athens’ reliance on labor-intensive naval warfare against the Persians and other
enemies.
In other words, Hamas’s allies are the regimes’
enemies.
Nevertheless, it is a prescription for endless terrorism and war: both pro- and anti-Iranian revolutionary Islamists believe that, because God is on their side and their
enemies
are cowardly, they will win, and they are quite prepared to spend the next half-century trying to prove it.
The Trump administration’s erratic use of sanctions compounds the problem by making it difficult to price transactions with countries that could be friends one day but deemed
enemies
the next.
For example, the US has effectively balkanized global banking by requiring all foreign banks operating there to become subsidiary companies and requiring international banks with US-dollar clearing accounts to comply fully with US tax, regulatory, and even, to some degree, foreign policy (for example, refraining from trading with US enemies).
Ironically, while Khamenei is no fan of democracy, he relies on the fact that his principal
enemies
are bound by democratic constraints.
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