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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
es a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem. The United States has lost all credibility on this issue; after casting the sole vote in the U.N. Security Council against censuring Israel for its illegal settlement building, it can no longer act as an objective mediator. This act was a watershed in U.S.- Saud
es, the UN Secretary-General could then report to the Security Council and eventually recommend that it should confirm t
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 →udes a Palestinian state with its capital in East Jerusalem. The United States has lost all credibility on this issue; after casting the sole vote in the U.N. Security Council against censuring Israel for its illegal settlement building, it can no longer act as an objective mediator. This act was a watershed in U.S.- Saudi
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031846 →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
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Bashar al-Assad
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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Damascus
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Tehran
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Bill Clinton
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Hosni Mubarak
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Middle East
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Cairo
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Jerusalem
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Saddam Hussein
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Yemen
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Vladimir Putin
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Tunisia
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West Bank
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