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INTRODUCTION
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3. Fareed Zakaria, “Israel Dominates the Middle East,” Washington Post, November 21, 2012, https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/fareed-zakaria-israel-dominates-the-middle-east/2012/11/21/d310dc7c-3428-11e2-bfd5-e202b6d7b501_story.html.
4. Reuven Gal, A Portrait of the Israeli Soldier (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1986), 10.
5. Arthur Herman, “How Israel’s Defense Industry Can Help Save America,” Commentary, December 1, 2011.
6. Becker, “Factory and Lab.”
7. Ann Scott Tyson, “Youths in Rural US Are Drawn to Military,” Washington Post, November 4, 2005.
8. Christopher Rhoads, “How an Elite Military School Feeds Israel’s Tech Industry,” Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2007, A1.
9. Ben Caspit, “Talpiot Industrial Zone,” Maariv, March 29, 2010, 10.