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Israeli Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni is trying to perpetuate a tradition among politicians in her country of presuming to choose the leaders of other peoples as well, but rarely have she and her colleagues needed more urgently to examine their own performance. Even before the establishment of the state of Israel by force of arms in 1948.

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