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he two of us actually met — shortly after the assassination of my longtime comrade and friend Yitzhak Rabin, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army fr
, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely
, he had a rare gift for igniting excitement in his students. We studied the French Revolution. He brought it to life with insights into Montesquieu, Rousseau and John Locke, Louis XVI and Mary Antoinette, Robespierre and Napoleon. He traced the dynamics that led to the revolution, and the way its ideals de
he two of us actually met — shortly after the assassination of my longtime comrade and friend Yitzhak Rabin, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army fr
, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely
, he had a rare gift for igniting excitement in his students. We studied the French Revolution. He brought it to life with insights into Montesquieu, Rousseau and John Locke, Louis XVI and Mary Antoinette, Robespierre and Napoleon. He traced the dynamics that led to the revolution, and the way its ideals de
l in the Islamic Republic's favored zones: ambivalence and inertia. As one awaits this tortuous Godot, one might recall a forecast of a bomb by 1999 (Shimon Peres) or 2004 (Ehud Barak), or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's talk of "a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs," or my friend Jeffrey G
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031896 →36 He considers three leading theories about what we ought to do - one deriving from Kant, one from the social-contract tradition of Hobbes, Locke, Rousseau, and the contemporary philosophers John Rawls and T.M. Scanlon, and one from Bentham's utilitarianism - and argues that the Kantian and social-contra
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031911 →Entities connected to both Shimon Peres and Rousseau

George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Barack Obama
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Jerusalem
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Ehud Barak
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Bashar al-Assad
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Hosni Mubarak
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Bill Clinton
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Lebanon
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West Bank
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Marc Rich
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Michael Cohen
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Saddam Hussein
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Cairo
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Rabin
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Yasser Arafat
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Middle East
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Damascus
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