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or a quarter century, we have spoken of Sliding Doors moments, in homage to the otherwise slight romcom in which a single, small action has life-altering consequences – opening up two different futures. People use the phrase to refer to forks in the road of their personal lives, but it also applies to the bloodiest kind of international politics. I look at the contrasting journeys taken by Northern Ireland and by Israel in the past 25 years and conclude that one got on the right

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