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The Northern Irish Troubles, relative to their scale, are the most studied conflict in modern history. They took place in a province the size ofConnecticutwith a population of around 1.6 million…

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Over the course of 10 letters, Yossi Klein Halevi, a bestselling author and researcher on Jewish and…