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05/12/2014 the Cathedral — to Shlomo Gazit ¢ As the year 2015 begins, we find ourselves at the height of a historic earthquake, 1n multiple dimensions, the like of which hasn’t been seen since the end of WWI and the collapse of the Ottoman Empire. ¢ Inthe Middle East — within three years, the "Arab spring" turned into the "Islamic winter" — borders have vanished and centuries of conflicts between tribes and factions are erupting onto the surface. ¢ The bi-polar and multi-polar world we knew has been replaced by a world with not even one geopolitical center of gravity. It is a Gestalt in which everything depends on everything else, and dealing with the challenges requires global cooperation e Israel finds itself at the center of a kind of "perfect storm,"the only outpost of the western way of life in HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028887