Israel has no truer, or wiser, friend than Walter Russell Mead. I'm not providing a quote from his blog post today because I want you to read the whole thing.
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Jeffrey Goldberg is the editor in chief of The Atlantic and a recipient of the National Magazine Award for Reporting. He is the author of Prisoners: A Story of Friendship and Terror.