Opinion: Could Putin lose? Here’s why the ‘End of History’ author is optimistic. - "Liberalism is a doctrine that deliberately says, 'The purpose of politics is not to serve final ends, like the vision of the good life that’s defined by religious doctrine, because we can’t agree on what those are. So we’ll agree to tolerate people that are very different from us.'
"It means that every liberal society therefore has a weaker sense of community than one based on a single religion or single ethno-nationalist tradition. Liberalism by design doesn’t give people this tightly bound sense of brotherhood or sisterhood with their fellow citizens."
Israel is trying to keep out Russian oligarchs fleeing sanctions — but some have already arrived - "A number of wealthy Russian Jews applied for Israeli citizenship after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine in 2014, in part to evade resulting U.S. sanctions. In Israel, they benefited from a law exempting new immigrants from declaring or paying taxes on their income for 10 years. The law was used as a loophole for international money laundering and transformed seaside cities such as Tel Aviv, Caesarea and Herzliya into playgrounds for the ultrarich."
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