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eight Israeli fighter pilots who bombed the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak. As we sat in the briefing room listening to the army chief of staff, Rafael Eitan, before starting our planes' engines, I recalled a conversation a week earlier when he'd asked us to voice any concerns about our mission. We told
will be loud, criticizing Israel and the U.S. and trying to broker Palestinian reconciliation, but its impact will be small. Whatever the fate of Bashar Assad, Syria's capacity to project power on the regional stage has been dramatically reduced. The Assads -- father and son -- always played a weak hand w
egional stage has been dramatically reduced. The Assads -- father and son -- always played a weak hand we
my first meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful, then at me, and added: “When I was 20 years younger than you are,
e deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated
my first meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful, then at me, and added: “When I was 20 years younger than you are,
e deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated
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Barack Obama
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Damascus
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Hosni Mubarak
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Middle East
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Tunisia
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Yemen
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Saddam Hussein
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Cairo
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Fatah
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Michael Cohen
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West Bank
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Morocco
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