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The commitment trap: How Israel, Iran and the US risk becoming prisoners to policies

  • Written by Andrew Latham, Professor of Political Science, Macalester College
imageIsrael and Iran have long been locked in a path toward conflictJaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images

The latest escalation in the Middle East is in many ways the inevitable culmination of a long-simmering rivalry. Iran’s pursuit of nuclear weapons capability and Israel’s determination to stop that from happening meant that such an...

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