One of the most clichéd and oft-used words that mark election campaigns, such as the one we are now beginning to undergo here in Israel, is „change.“ One of the basic human drives is to achieve change for the better in one’s personal life and in the national life of the country where one resides. Barack Obama was elected president of the United States on the promise of change. Whether actual change has been accomplished under his leadership and whether that change is positive and beneficial to American society are issues that are currently being debated and yet to be decided. But, there is no question that the promise of change is a potent political and psychological weapon and is…
…After the First World War, Kemil Ataturk ruthlessly transformed Turkey from a Moslem caliphate into a Western, completely secular, modern country. This change, laudatory as it may have looked to Western eyes, has also collapsed in our time. Instead, we see that Turkey has reverted to an aggressively Moslem country with caliphate ambitions that it barely hides. …
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