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Comparing Israeli politics with ‘Europe’—whatever we compare—may seem prima face not fair, if not academically speaking useless. On the one hand we have a tiny country of six million people and on the other hand we have a continent. On the one hand we have a relatively young state, fifty-two years old, and on the other hand ‘established’ states. On the one hand we have a Middle Eastern state and on the other hand we have Western states. So what is the point of comparing the two?
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de-Shalit, A. (2003). Europe, Israel and Environmental Politics: Lessons to be Learnt. In: Boehnke, K. (eds) Israel and Europe. Deutscher Universitätsverlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-81262-9_7
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