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Condoleezza Rice: The New Axis of Evil and a Changed World
What can Israel learn from America? (Photo by JEWEL SAMAD/AFP via Getty Images)
A conversation with the former secretary of state. Plus: George Packer on what Israel can learn from America’s 9/11 response.
By Bari Weiss
10.14.23 — U.S. Politics
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In the first piece we published after Hamas’s attack on Israel last Saturday, Noah Pollak was quick to recognize the parallels between October 7, 2023 and September 11, 2001. In both cases, an illusion of security was shattered; a fiercely ideological enemy targeted civilians; and the magnitude of the horror transformed the nation—and the geopolitical p…

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Bari Weiss
Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press, host of the podcast Honestly, and editor-in-chief of CBS News. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.
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