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Israel's New Islamist Neighborhood
(Wall Street Journal) Reuel Marc Gerecht - Israel may one day be accepted by its Arab neighbors and by its most deadly foe, Iran - but only when Arab and Iranian Muslim identities allow for it. At best, that change is decades away. Modern Islam's great internal tug of war, between the search for authenticity and the love of modernity, must quiet before the Israeli-Palestinian clash can end. The writer, a former Middle East specialist at the CIA, is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.