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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJgv39GtcJ0 Those who have studied history know that nothing invigorates and empowers an authoritarian regime more than a spectacular act of violence, some sudden and senseless loss of life that allows the autocrat to stand on the smoking rubble and identify himself as the hero. It is at moments like […]

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Badness always manifests in destruction and corruption, while goodness always manifests in preservation and benefit. – Socrates in Plato’s Republic (ca. 374 B.C.) “Wanted” posters of Ehud Olmert and Ehud Barak in Jerusalem, April 2010.  Olmert and Barak are accused of bribery and corruption in Israel and indictable for serious war crimes in Gaza.  […]

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