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vent the kind of chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gadda
e kind of chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gaddafi in Li
f the regime falls; working with reconcilable elements of the Syrian army to maintain order and prevent the kind of chaos that followed the fall of Saddam Hussein in Iraq and EFTA00678416 Moammar Gaddafi in Libya; and preventing the future use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime in a desperate last stan
monstrators sought refuge inside the nearby Al Aqsa Mosque. Police did not enter the mosque, and no one was injured. The compound, known to Jews as the Temple Mount, is the holiest site in Judaism. Known to Muslims as the "Noble Sanctuary," it is Islam's third- holiest site. Rosenfeld said security has been hei
n a telephone interview. But even more present in the minds of today's Iranians, according to Mousavian, was Washington's bias in the 1980s toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq after it invaded Iran. Mousavian said that some 300,000 Iranians were killed or injured in the eight years of war that ensued and that U.S. p
been more successful than that of many other former parts of the Eastern Bloc. This "constitutional moment" was lost in Iraq after the toppling of Saddam and in Afghanistan after the toppling of the Taliban in part because of heavy-handed American drives to shape the constitutions in ways that the U.
was Washington's bias in the 1980s toward Saddam Hussein's Iraq after it invaded Iran. Mousavian said tha
iration? Will we see the struggle increasing epitomized as a primordial struggle between Jewish and Islamic religious symbols - between al-Aqsa and the Temple Mount? It seems that both Israel and its surrounding terrain are marching in step toward language which takes them far away from the underlying, largely
s highest PA religious leader, the Mufti Muhammad Hussein, presented the killing of Jews by Muslims as a r
g a conflict as a religious war can have dangerous implications. In September 2000, Yasser Arafat said that then-Israeli MP Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount defiled the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He used this claim as a guise to launch the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" (i.e., second Intifada) terror campaign, which led to EF
ope" that I have just described, were laid by Moshe Dayan and Shlomo Gazit, and of course by Menachem Begin and Anwar Sadat, Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan, and again Rabin and Shimon Peres. We must not allow the shortsighted populists that currently lead us to destroy this achievement, and
he Orphan, and the Stranger, and "To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto Me?" This rather than resuming sacrificial offerings on the Temple Mount. They understand that for Israel, security is a basic imperative, but they still work to change the security realities vis-a-vis the Palestinians—
e /right-of-return issue or to determine who owns the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. It is opting to convert an intracta
g quickly loses its appeal when one is dealing with dictators who are less noxious. And even when they are not less noxious, as in the case of Iraq's Saddam Hussein, the moral argument for their removal is still fraught with difficulty since the worse the autocrat, the worse the chaos left in his wake. That is be
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Tehran
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Jerusalem
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Middle East
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Yemen
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Vladimir Putin
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Tunisia
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Department of Justice
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Cairo
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Hillary Clinton
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John F. Kennedy
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