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Editor's Highlights

Editor's Highlights | June 3rd 2010

Israel's siege mentality

This week we split our cover. In Asia we look at leaderless Japan. The resignation of the feckless Yukio Hatoyama is yet another sign of drift in the world's second-biggest economy. Japan used to be envied; now hopes centre on the idea that things will get so bad that reform will be given a chance. In the rest of the world we concentrate on Israel's siege mentality. For anyone who cares about Israel, the bloody tragedy of the boarded flotilla should be the starting point for deeper questions—about the blockade of Gaza, about the Jewish state's increasing loneliness and the route to peace. A policy of trying to imprison the Palestinians has left their jailer strangely besieged. The government's macho attitude, we argue, is actually making Israel weaker.

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