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    Is Israel's new government destroying democracy? Blinken surveys situation on Middle East trip

    by Tracy Wilkinson, Los Angeles Times Jan 29, 2023 4 minutes
    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem on Jan. 25, 2023.

    As Israel in recent weeks put together its most right-wing, religiously conservative government in history, senior U.S. officials insisted on waiting and seeing just how radical things would get.

    They emphasized "policies," not "personalities."

    Now, nearly a month into a government led by returning Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and populated by ultra-Orthodox politicians, it is already clear that a new bar is being set in controversial actions and extreme ideologies. Secretary of State Antony J. Blinken arrives in Israel on Monday to take stock of the situation, but can he be effective given the Israeli government's momentum?

    Many in and outside of Israel fear the democracy that the country long claimed to be — often billed the "only democracy in the Middle East" — is

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