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Israel—Drifting Towards Disaster? BRONWEN MADDOX What if football had different rules? p20 ISSUE 220 | JULY 2014 www.prospectmagazine.co.uk JULY 2014 | £4.95 Israel—drifting towards disaster? BRONWEN MADDOX ISRAEL—DRIFTING TOWARDS DISASTER? ISRAEL—DRIFTING TOWARDS Plus Ed Miliband’s real problem PETER KELLNER How Germany remembers WW1 HEW STRACHAN The man who saved the world STEPHANIE FLANDERS Surviving teleportation JIM HOLT Why you should move to Manchester JONATHAN DERBYSHIRE Also Rebecca Front, Christine Ockrent, Sebastian Smee, AC Grayling, Ramachandra Guha, Jonathan Portes C PROSPECT JULY Foreword Democracy’s great test 25 Sackville Street, London W1S 3AX Publishing 020 7255 1281 Editorial 020 7255 1344 Fax 020 3031 1191 Email [email protected] [email protected] Website www.prospectmagazine.co.uk Editorial Editor and Chief Executive Bronwen Maddox Editor-at-Large David Goodhart Deputy Editor Jay Elwes The biggest test of democracy is whether it produces Managing Editor Jonathan Derbyshire Arts & Books Editor David Wolf governments that can solve a country’s greatest problems. 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