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September 17, 2018

Netanyahu Is Right to Preserve Relations with Strongmen—and Even with Rodrigo Duterte

Israel needs allies.

Last week, the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte—known for his bloody war on his country’s drug traffickers and drug addicts as well as his outrageous statements encouraging violence and even seeming to praise Hitler—made a state visit to Israel, where he was warmly received by Benjamin Netanyahu. Easy as it is to criticize the prime minister for cultivating relations with such unpleasant characters, writes Daniel Gordis, the truth is that he has a sound strategic rationale for doing so:

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