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hen Israel's finance minister, made an official visit to Uganda. For Netanyahu, visits to Uganda are weighted with sadness. It was at the airport in Entebbe that his older brother, Yonatan Netanyahu, was shot dead by a Ugandan soldier. Yonatan was the leader of an Israeli commando team dispatched by Pri
wish hostages held by pro-Palestinian terrorists. The terrorists had diverted an Air France flight to Uganda, where the then-dictator, the infamous Idi Amin, gave them refuge. The raid was a near-total success. The hijackers were all killed, along with dozens of Ugandan soldiers posted to the airport by
Front for the Liberation of Palestine launched an even more audacious operation. It became known by the name of the airport where the ordeal ended. Entebbe. And when it began I, like Uzi Yairi, was sitting at my desk. 164 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011635 Chapter Ten Sunday is an ordinary working day in Israel,
the main runways. Other passengers revealed that the hijackers had placed explosives around the old terminal building. And that, despite my hope that Idi Amin would stand aside if we did decide to go in and rescue the hostages, his troops were helping to guard the area. So in addition to taking on the hija
r Front for the Liberation of Palestine launched an even more audacious operation. It became known by the name of the airport where the ordeal ended. Entebbe. And when it began I, like Uzi Yairi, was sitting at my desk. 164 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028012 Chapter Ten Sunday is an ordinary working day in Israel, an
the main runways. Other passengers revealed that the hijackers had placed explosives around the old terminal building. And that, despite my hope that Idi Amin would stand aside if we did decide to go in and rescue the hostages, his troops were helping to guard the area. So in addition to taking on the hijac
Entities connected to both Entebbe and Idi Amin

George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Ehud Barak
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATION
Michael Cohen
PERSON
Barack Obama
PERSONthe Soviet Union
LOCATION
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Yitzhak Rabin
PERSON
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
John F. Kennedy
PERSON
Jeffrey Epstein
PERSON
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Shimon Peres
PERSONLeon Black
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