Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
Difficult to imagine a more timely moment for us to convene this particular forum. Met,e years since we last we have seen examples of something that is extremely an extraordinary. Cities are important as players on the national stage, bypassing cities look to each other. Mayors and city leaders across this country affirmed their support for what had been an nations, theng paris climate accord. Climate change is not an outlier in city to city coordination. It is happening on issues of inclusion, immigration, health, security. Extraordinary is perhaps the wrong word to describe this trend. Direct city to city coordinations emerging and wonderfullycoming ordinary. Why . Urbanization is the most consequential force shaping our political order in this century. It is the most dynamic force. 500 cities around the world have a population of more than one million people. That statistic it does not capture the staggering pace at which cities are growing. World0 one third of the lived in urban ar
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To this question, who is responsible for what i call the civilian front. We have to realize in israel, my term of what we call home front is the civilian front. Because in israel, we have two fronts. We have the military front, which is nicely orchestrated. We have clarity of hierarchy. Everything is clear. How the orders go. But when we come to the issues of the civilian front, which is much more complex, much more complex, nobody knows what who is responsible for what . We dont have this whole issue of accountability, authority and responsibility. Israel is excuse me for using french, primitive. Its primitive. And we cannot come and bring ourselves to structure it in accordance with my logics, politics is a major obstacle, major obstacle in this respect. I dont want to end with grim prospect. But we have several major issues that still have to be dealt with. You know, very basic ones, not just tactical ones. Very basic ones. Number one, who is responsible for the population in terms