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el has a population of 17,600 -- 7,000 of whom are immigrants who arrived in Israel over the last two decades in the exodus of Jews from the former Soviet Union. It is the most populous community in the so- called Ariel bloc, a 40,000-strong chain of 15 settlements (Karnei Shomron, Knesset member Michael Ben
was occupied a few years later by settlers from the religious-Zionist Gush Emunim movement; in the late 1970s, it was authorized by Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government. Today, it is the West Bank's third-largest settlement, drawing many secular Israelis attracted as much by its striking desert l
rces Agreement. UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (Zionism-Racism). Lebanese President Suleiman Frangieh invites Syrian troops into the country. Menachem Begin’s Likud Party wins Israeli national elections after 29 years of Labor Party dominance. In a speech in Cairo, President Anwar al-Sadat announces his r
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023152 →n the international system at the time. The PLO had been financially dependent on the states of the Arab Gulf and the Communist bloc. The collapse of the Soviet Union and Arafat’s support of Saddam Hussein during the Gulf War of 1991 resulted in the collapse of funding for the PLO and an end to remittances to Pales
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023163 →rs, the United States was the only power with nuclear weapons on this planet, but we blackmailed no one. Nor did we take anyone’s land. By contrast, the Soviet Union incorporated huge swaths of post-war Poland and Germany. If we compare the United States to Assyria, Babylonia, Persia, Greece, and Rome—or for that
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023542 →appened? Millions of Israelis are descendants of those who died in the Holocaust. In 1981, when Iraq threatened Israel, Israel’s then prime minister, Menachem Begin, ordered the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023542 --- PAGE BREAK --- 2] Israeli Air Force to destroy Iraq’s nuclear reactor and then declared that “Israel has
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023543 →on the other side, security tips the balance." Peres subsequently used that self-same argument to join every government that would have him. The late Menachem Begin lost nine elections before finally becoming Israel's Prime Minister in 1977. He served as a pugnacious and dedicated leader of the opposition. Peres
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029707 →pitalism after the oil shocks and stagflation of the 1970s. America's success in the 1980s contributed both to the end of the Cold War, by persuading the Soviet Union it could not keep up, and to two decades of exceptional global growth. The new U.S. international economic strategy should have five parts. First, th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029737 →on the other side, security tips the balance." Peres subsequently used that self-same argument to join every government that would have him. The late Menachem Begin lost nine elections before finally becoming Israel's Prime Minister in 1977. He served as a pugnacious and dedicated leader of the opposition. Peres
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029794 →pitalism after the oil shocks and stagflation of the 1970s. America's success in the 1980s contributed both to the end of the Cold War, by persuading the Soviet Union it could not keep up, and to two decades of exceptional global growth. The new U.S. international economic strategy should have five parts. First, th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029824 →Entities connected to both Soviet Union and Menachem Begin

George W. Bush
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Marc Rich
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Donald Trump
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Lebanon
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Bashar al-Assad
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Saddam Hussein
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Hillary Clinton
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Tehran
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West Bank
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Vietnam
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Hosni Mubarak
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Ronald Reagan
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Ehud Barak
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Jerusalem
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Joe Biden
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