There is a principle in clinical psychology called symptom substitution. When a therapist blocks a patient's compulsive behaviour – nail-biting, hair-pulling – without treating the underlying anxiety that drives it, the compulsion does not vanish. It migrates to a new outlet. The surface behaviour changes; the root condition does not. The analogy to geopolitics is imperfect but instructive. For four decades, radical Islam's obsessive focus on Israel was the behavioural expres

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