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The Alliance would not be happy to apply Article 5 of the NATO charter, which would oblige its members to fight for Israel if it were attacked by any of its many potential
enemies
in an endemically dangerous region.
For starters, it is more difficult to rally support for a positive agenda than it is to build solidarity through opposition to presumed
enemies.
“The most important thing is the question of whether China and the US are
enemies.
For Iran’s enemies, the message of the framework agreement is clear: protect your own vital interests, rather than waiting for the US.
Powerful
enemies
of modernization, such as Poland’s Roman Catholic Church, always exist.
Living with InsecurityI have often wondered why Karl Popper ended the dramatic peroration of the first volume of his Open Society and Its
Enemies
with the sentence: "We must go on into the unknown, the uncertain and insecure, using what reason we have to plan for both security and freedom."
Stop the Band-Aid TreatmentThe Middle East is a tinderbox, with some key players on all sides waiting for every opportunity to destroy their
enemies
with bullets, bombs and missiles.
Mankind must also confront other global “threats without enemies” that are separate from (though linked with) climate change.
Indeed, Putin’s rationale for annexing Crimea closely resembles Brezhnev’s reasoning for invading Afghanistan: to confound
enemies
seeking to surround the country.
Former
enemies
had become close friends.
As the international law expert Richard Falk has argued, it is Trump’s “demagoguery” that enables this approach, as it “blinds adherents to their true material self-interests and misidentifies their real social enemies.”
For the Kim dynasty to survive, the threat of external
enemies
is essential.
Nor would old
enemies
and competitors like Russia and China readily abandon the benefits of spoiling American plans.
With so many former military officers serving in Trump’s cabinet or as advisers, even as Trump cozies up to Russian President Vladimir Putin and anchors an informal alliance of dictators and authoritarians around the world, it is likely that the US will spend more money on weapons that don’t work to use against
enemies
that don’t exist.
Most people need a communal identity, but it may well be better to find it in one’s attachment to a city than in attachment to a country that is armed and willing to engage in conflict with
enemies.
Both parties speak the same language – that of virulent nationalism – used by Europe's enemies, whether in Dresden or Moscow.
Syriza's main innovation has been to capitalize on the urgent need for change in Greece by portraying the parties it has ousted as somehow aligned with the county's enemies, including the EU.
Some commentators suggest that Wilders, born and raised as a Catholic in a provincial Dutch town, is, like his Muslim enemies, a true believer, driven by the goal of keeping Europe “Judeo-Christian.”
God would side once more with Muslims against their enemies, whom Qutb called “Crusaders and Jews.”
The inventors of the Third Way mostly overlooked the value of individual liberty, but it is this that remains the single most important issue in a world where open societies still face mortal
enemies.
While the Iraq quagmire has made it difficult for America to project force around the world, America’s growing debt, conflicts with friends and
enemies
alike, absence of any perceivable strategy for changing times, and its political system’s seeming inability to take action to address these challenges have combined to turn America into a struggling giant.
Based on this history, it seems likely that Russia’s effort to contain perceived
enemies
will lead only to economic collapse and political disarray, forcing the country’s elites to step away from their geopolitical aspirations and turn to urgent domestic issues.
The ideological enemy was the capitalist world, but the immediate
enemies
were “Trotskyists,” “revisionists,” and other “reactionary elements” inside the Soviet sphere.
Political
enemies
are collaborating to minimize security risks, and religious leaders advocate coexistence and tolerance.
Furthermore, the government effort to portray independent journalists as vicious
enemies
unfairly condemns the many Ethiopian reporters and editors who take their responsibilities seriously.
Our Arab neighbors should never be trusted; hence, as Jabotinski preached, the new Israeli nation must erect an Iron Wall of Jewish power to deter its
enemies
forever.
And each year, populist rhetoric about a “national renaissance” and a “showdown with the enemies” grows stronger.
They have built up an image of authority and moral inflexibility, and have helped themselves by picking
enemies
who are damned by all and lacking any kind of power to move against them (the weakened military, for example, or civilian members of the 1976-1983 dictatorship).
During the postwar decades of decolonization, many new countries emerged, and former
enemies
united under new alliances and an overarching structure of integration.
Zionism was too weak, and the
enemies
of the Jews too strong, for the murder of six million Jews in the Holocaust to be avoided.
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