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ix-Day War of 1967; the surprise attack of Yom Kippur 1973 by Egypt and Syria that gravely jeopardized the Jewish state; the 1976 hostage rescue at Entebbe, Uganda; the 1981 raid against Iraqi nuclear facilities at Osirak; and the similar raid against Syria in 2007. Van Creveld traces aerial fighting

ct of air power in World War I was in bombing submarines. Van Creveld acerbically notes that World War II began with Hermann Goering, commander of Adolf Hitler's Luftwaffe, directing his pilots to strike only military targets, and effectively ended with the Enola Gay releasing history's deadliest weapon on t

ctories not to the number or quality of German planes but to a unified military command, good planning and the passion to expand the German Reich. Hitler's "final conquest of England" failed because British morale was too strong to break under repeated bombing and because the Royal Air Force downed s

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A00662942 Nile and the diversion of its course—a move Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda were supportive of. This breakaway led to the signing of the 2010 Entebbe Agreement by the upstream countries in East Africa including Ethiopia. The agreement allows for the signatories to carry out water projects on the

her would have the swift collapse of four empires, the arbitrary creation of the modern Middle East, Germany's hyperinflation, the rise of fascism, Hitler and, of course, World War II, the Holocaust, Soviet expansionism, the Cold War and so much more. The very first domino was toppled by a single man,

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untry. An erudite, accomplished classical pianist, Barak was a special forces legend famous for actions such as planning the hostage-rescue raid on Entebbe and sneaking into Lebanon on an assassination run dressed as a woman. He finished his military career as chief of the general staff, then parachute

s, with the ugly countenance of hatred toward Jews lurking behind every corner, as author Tuvia Tenenbom recently suggested in his book "I Sleep in Hitler's Room: An American Jew Visits Germany"? There have been a number of studies on anti-Semitism in Germany, and few topics have been examined as exte