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rked on building this axis since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, and in addition to Syria includes two strong non-state actors: Hamas and Hizbullah. Syria has been the bridge for Iran in the Arab EFTA_R1_01992727 EFTA02681512 29 world and losing the Assad regime would break this bridge and
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ogram. Syria is the keystone of the pro-Iran axis. Weakening the Assad regime, to say nothing of its collapse, would be a blow to Iran, llamas and Hizbullah. Second, this situation gives breathing space to opponents of the Iranian camp, starting with the moderate camp in Lebanon, but it also creates a
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024958 →genuinely to have believed that the Arab nationalist ideology he inherited, his opposition to Israel and his support for resistance movements such as Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, gave him immunity from popular discontent. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on 31 January, he claimed that
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024963 →nfluence, destroy the PLO and bring Lebanon into its orbit, Syria found local allies among the Shia resistance movements of South Lebanon -- of which Hizbullah became the most prominent. Waging a guerrilla war, and benefiting from logistical support and weapons from Iran and Syria, Hizbullah managed to force
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024967 →Entities connected to both Thomas L. Friedman and Hezbollah

Lebanon
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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George W. Bush
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Tunisia
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Yemen
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Hosni Mubarak
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Tehran
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United States
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Damascus
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Bahrain
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Cairo
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Fatah
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Saddam Hussein
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Middle East
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Marc Rich
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Muammar Gaddafi
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