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Others were less convinced. While quietly and sometimes begrudgingly willing to concede that the deal might delay Iranian ambitions, critics pointed to its anomalous loopholes. Among these were the twenty-four-day period for investigating Iranian violations—long enough, skeptics said, for a breakout—and the fact that Iran, itself, would collect and

American fears of continued government expansion and the relative prosperity of the nation have kept the initiation of long-term, large-scale social programs at bay. America has no national family financial allowance and allows more children to remain in poverty than does any other industrialized nation. It offers unmarried mothers less help with d

So Netanyahu became the first Likud leader to come out publicly for the two-state solution. The left predictably lauded him and the extreme right denounced him, but the Israeli center—the solid majority—approved.