2024 will show the way we’re headed

The past year showed that the future of humanity is in the hands of the voters of democratic countries. This year will show which way we are headed. We know how autocratic regimes behave and what their aims are. The great challenges of our time demand virtues that only the voters of free nations can appreciate and choose. In Israel, the United States of America, the European Union and wherever else there is freedom of expression and freedom to choose a government, citizens influence the way that their nations deal with the wars that are raging today and with the tensions between greater powers. Voters will also have a say in the evolution of the global system of governance and management of the climate crisis and mass migration. The situation is complicated, as domestic and foreign issues merge, seldom to the benefit of either. For regimes such as those of Iran and Russia, the...