The second way the leftist establishment is trying to hide the game-changing nature of the Fatah-Hamas deal is by belittling it.

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Moreover, the establishment of the second Palestinian terror state after Gaza in Judea and Samaria would embolden some of Israel's Arab citizens in the Galilee and the Negev as well as in Jaffa, Lod, Haifa and beyond to escalate their already declared irredentist plans to demand autonomy or unification with whatever Palestinian terror state they choose.

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Second, parts of the Pakistani establishment seem to sympathise with militant Islamist movements.

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She said the preferred option was a takeover of the PMS by a financial institution, the second option was raising money to allow a winding up by an administrator and the third was the establishment of a hardship fund.

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Second, how can a small government establishment that fully embraced the message of the 2010 elections support a deal that wholly ignores that message?

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If he thinks that the mode of the right wing establishment has changed and he can make a difference in a second term then he needs to make it clear, what those changes are.

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The lessons that Bennett draws from recent history are familiar, and not only on the right: If Israel were to allow the establishment of a Palestinian state, what is now the West Bank would quickly become a second Gaza a Hamas-led bastion of Islamic radicalism, a launch pad for rocket fire aimed at Tel Aviv and Ben Gurion Airport.

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Elements in the military establishment have also felt a need to use the street protest power of these groups as a second line of defence at times of international crises.

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