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A New Alliance for Israel (in Haaretz)

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1206545.html Longer version http://www.huffingtonpost.com/leon-t-hadar/israel-needs-to-adjust-to_b_803789.html and http://www.amconmag.com/blog/israels-post-american-future/ A New Alliance for Israel By Leon Hadar “We cannot exist alone.” Israel’s national security axiom was acknowledged by President Shimon Peres during an address in November. “For our existence we need the friendship of the United States of America,” he stressed, adding: “It doesn't sound easy, but this is the truth.” It’s not easy for a client-state to admit that its own survival depends on a global patron. It’s even more challenging for leaders of a dependent state to recognize that the great power they are relying on is entering into an imperial twilight time. Inertia and wishful thinking explains why elites the empire’s capital and the provinces continue to share in the misconception about the hegemon’s ability to exert global influence But after a prolonged “recognitio