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might not present a conventional threat. Yet while I’d been with my tank company in the Sinai, they were fighting a full-scale civil war against King Hussein’s army in Jordan. The catalyst: a multiple hijacking in September 1970, a sign that they were turning to non-conventional warfare, and to acts of ter
nments had always calculated that we needed at least some measure of support from foreign allies, especially the US. Under Begin, we'd already bombed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor without telling the Americans beforehand. Shortly after I returned to the kirya, he provoked further anger in Washington by announcin
pecially the US. Under Begin, we'd already bombed Saddam Hussein’s nuclear reactor without telling the Ame
igation ditches, controlled the main transport corridor from the Sinai to the bank of the canal. Before dawn on October 16, one of the battalions in Arik Sharon’s brigade, under a veteran paratroop commander named Danny Matt, had managed to cross the canal on rubber rafts with an advance force of some 750 men a
0s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon.
Ben-Zvi.” They were two names which I, like most Israeli teenagers at the time, knew well. Ben-Zvi 04 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011525 had been an officer in Arik Sharon’s original Unit 101, and Nachmias was one of the earliest recruits to Company A. They shook my hand and motioned me into a Jeep. As we drove out of the
0s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jordan and were re-based in Lebanon.
Ben-Zvi.” They were two names which I, like most Israeli teenagers at the time, knew well. Ben-Zvi 04 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027902 had been an officer in Arik Sharon’s original Unit 101, and Nachmias was one of the earliest recruits to Company A. They shook my hand and motioned me into a Jeep. As we drove out of the
Entities connected to both Saddam Hussein and Arik Sharon’s

Barack Obama
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Marc Rich
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Middle East
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Hosni Mubarak
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Jerusalem
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Damascus
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Yemen
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Tunisia
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Cairo
LOCATIONLeon Black
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Michael Cohen
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West Bank
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Fatah
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Ehud Barak
PERSONSinai
LOCATIONMediterranean
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