Our credibility would collapse, our alliances would crumble, and the safety of our homeland would be put in jeopardy".
After a dreadful year of violence in 2006, when security in the south appeared to collapse, the alliance has rediscovered a sense of confidence and believes it has regained the initiative.
Although his push against the ethnic Albanians there started even before peace talks collapsed last month, alliance officials have been appalled at the ferocity of the ethnic cleansing now under way and all but overwhelmed by the torrent of refugees it has created (see article).
The shared interests prevented the alliance from collapsing during the Russia-Georgia war of 2008.
The approach to General Media, the manager said, came as the Blockbuster alliance was collapsing.
As the National Union Government was collapsing, Kauffmann arranged an alliance between his Party of the Right and Moutrier's Liberal League, seeking to achieve change that would outlive the occupation.
What the 2017 elections showed is that alliance is collapsing: Republicans in high-income, high-education, traditionally GOP areas lost en masse because the GOP has become too toxically associated with white supremacy and the culture wars for locals' taste.
The country's last elections were in 2009, but the winning alliance collapsed in 2011, and a coalition of opposition parties took control of the Parliament.
And it is so charged, so offensive not only to the Arab citizens of Israel but even to some members of Netanyahu's ruling coalition, that is it likely to collapse that fragile alliance and result in new elections.
The alliance collapsed two years later.
More serious, the papal-French alliance collapsed.
