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"Washington has always regarded democratic socialism as a greater threat than totalitarian Communism."

"the Israeli state openly embraced a new national economic vision: the growth provided by the dot-com bubble would be replaced with a homeland security boom. It was the perfect marriage of the Likud Party's hawkishness and its radical embrace of Chicago School economics, as embodied by Sharon's finance minister, Benjamin Netanyahu."

"Unlike Palestinian workers, whose presence in Israel challenged the Zionist project...the hundreds of thousands of Russians who came to Israel...had the opposite effect...On March 30, 1993, Israel began its policy of 'closure,' sealing off the border between Israel and the occupied territories."

"Disaster generation can therefore be left to the market's invisible hand. This is one area in which it actually delivers."

"When Katrina hit, FEMA had to hire a contractor to award contracts to contractors."