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challenges requires global cooperation ¢ Israel finds itself at the center of a kind of "perfect storm,"the only outpost of the western way of life in the Middle East — at the meeting point of the "clash of civilizations" between Islam and the West, as Huntington envisioned it, and at the same time, 1n the spinning "eye of the storm" of the clash of titans within Islam itself: between Sunni and Shi'ite, between tradition, extremism and terrorism on the one hand, and modernity and moderation on the other; between the dream of "past glory" and the vision of a "leap into the future”. And all of this is drenched in a lot of blood. e This drama that has washed over the Arab world bears two lessons and one insight for us: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029358