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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu says Iran's leaders are irrational. A former head of Israeli security says it's Netanyahu who is.
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The Indian people's misperception of the army's role in Kashmir is preventing them from understanding the crisis there and its solution.
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François Hollande, if elected, won't have much time to decide whether to be decisive.
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