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In his vulgar use of Holocaust metaphors to portray the Iranian threat, he sounds more like the principal of a Jewish ghetto about to be annihilated by an agitated mob than the prime minister of the most powerful country in the Middle East.
In fact, Netanyahu has fundamentally misunderstood the Iran challenge: It is not an existential threat, but part of a broader struggle for regional mastery.
Of course, Netanyahu is intentionally exaggerating the Iranian threat to deflect attention from Israel’s real problems – especially its enduring conflict with Palestine.
Islam, many say, is a threat to democracy.
When the Cold War was at its height, and the threat from Russia at its most extreme, the West seemed to welcome Turkey's advances.
That said, the analyses conducted so far have not yet generated widespread awareness of the threat that non-inclusive growth poses to productivity and economic performance as conventionally measured.
Devising sensible policies on this front will require that we first define the market, and then decide what level of concentration, and over what time frame, constitutes a threat to competition.
As Iran has become the biggest threat to Israel, the Jewish State has made common cause with the Saudis.
Sarkozy’s embrace of the theme that France’s national identity has come under threat, which he linked to immigration, is not enough to make him an American style neo-conservative.
But the progress achieved so far is again under threat.
For them, and for new democracies like Ukraine, Georgia, and Moldova, Russian energy dominance and its political consequences remain a serious threat.
That is not just a symbolic statement; it is a descriptive one, which should be guiding our response to the terrorist threat.
Though the threat is substantial, it is not immediate, so governments continue to pursue other priorities, allowing the threat to grow, largely out of sight.
When the crisis finally erupts, the true scale of the threat will become clear.
So far, financial crisis still seems a rather more vague threat: people are afraid of inflation, stagnation, unemployment, and loss of assets and status.
But whereas Juppé, who coined the term l’identité heureuse (the happy identity), aims to transcend the deepening divisions within French society, Sarkozy seems poised to capitalize on them, presenting Islam as a fundamental threat to the French way of life.
The conventional wisdom is that the threat of prosecution serves Xi’s goals of consolidating power and compelling the bureaucracy to implement economic reforms that run counter to its interests.
Education is the most important investment we can make in our most precious assets – our children – and we will not tolerate even the slightest threat to it.
Latin American journalists may face a diminished threat of murder nowadays, but many still confront a gauntlet of challenges designed to control them.
All but the most courageous remain silent; with the threat of ruin for their paper or station, the risks that reporters run are no longer primarily their own.
The threat they pose may be less dramatic, but it is no less pernicious.
Add to that Europe’s ongoing right-wing backlash (exemplified, most recently, by Italy’s election) and the threat of a trade war with the United States, and Germany’s new grand coalition reeks of desperation.
But it is an uncertain outcome in the longer term, given the coalition’s considerable political baggage, and it is a bad outcome for democracy, especially at a time when populist forces are a growing threat.
Moreover, the greatest threat of the 1960’s and 1970’s – nuclear annihilation – has diminished.
This threat could recur, however, if there is a renewed standoff between new superpowers.
Even if the nuclear threat is contained, the twenty-first century could confront us with grave new global perils.
Joining a rally can be risky in countries like Turkey, where democracy is already under severe threat.
Those concerned about threats to democracy today should pay heed to the threat against physical gatherings.
There are no exceptions to this, other than “averting a direct threat” to the mother’s life.
With ultra-nationalist and anti-Arab rhetoric, Netanyahu manipulates Israelis into believing that they are under threat, physically, demographically, and even existentially, thereby pitting them against their Arab compatriots.
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