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The pattern of policymaking in the Middle East, as it was defined since US President George W. Bush's "axis if evil" speech of January 2002, is undergoing a momentous change of direction. Bush's foreign-policy paradigm of an alliance of "moderates" to defeat the "extremists" - a model too enthusiastically seconded by an unimaginative Israeli leadership.

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