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ael Hamid Alkifaey One could reasonably argue that the golden opportunity for peace in the Middle East was blown away when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995. He was the only Israeli leader capable of making peace with the Palestinians, and was about to do so had it not b
Israel is fixed. Its precise borders have never been. Thus, it is perhaps better to begin with what never was part of Israel. Israel never included the Sinai Peninsula. Along the coast, it never stretched much farther north than the Litani River in today's Lebanon. Apart from David's extreme extension (and fairly
ordanian delegation. UN General Assembly Resolution 46/86 (Zionism-Racism). Formal dissolution of the USSR. Israeli Labor Party wins the elections. Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister. Secret Israeli-PLO talks begin in Oslo, and develop into full-scale official negotiations in May that year. Secret signing
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023154 →were not inter- nationally recognized borders. The Arab-Israeli conflict came to a new head with the Six Day War in June 1967, when Israel conquered the Sinai Peninsula and the Gaza Strip from Egypt, the West Bank and East Jerusalem from Jordan, and the Golan Heights from Syria. In the aftermath, Arab nations unified
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023170 →Israel Hamid Alkifaey One could reasonably argue that the golden opportunity for peace in the Middle East was blown away when Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated on Nov. 4, 1995. He was the only Israeli leader capable of making peace with the Palestinians, and was about to do so had it not bee
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031839 →f Israel is fixed. Its precise borders have never been. Thus, it is perhaps better to begin with what never was part of Israel. Israel never included the Sinai Peninsula. Along the coast, it never stretched much farther north than the Litani River in today's Lebanon. Apart from David's extreme extension (and fairly te
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031860 →Entities connected to both Yitzhak Rabin and the Sinai Peninsula

Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Jerusalem
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Lebanon
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United States
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Hosni Mubarak
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Damascus
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Yasser Arafat
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Fatah
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Tehran
LOCATIONSinai
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Saddam Hussein
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Middle East
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Ehud Barak
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West Bank
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Cairo
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