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American and Israeli Flags - often a symbol of the "special relationship" between the two. Israel, the West, and the Conflict with Edom.
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Israel, the West & the Conflict with Edom

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Just as Roman citizenship guaranteed the rights of personal security and safe travel at the cost of submission to Roman imperial culture and later Roman Christianity, the cost of inclusion in Enlightened Europe’s “liberal” society was always a cultural assimilation – an identification with the state above all, at the expense of more particular communal affiliations.