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the very few countries in the world whose citizens would prefer a Romney victory, perhaps as a result of tensions between Obama and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over the President's 2009 efforts to restart the peace process with the Palestinians. Comments made by Romney in a secretly recorded address to don
at or baffled by the odious audacity of psychopaths and pathological liars like Ayalon, his boss Avigdor Lieberman or, indeed, their Prime Minister Netanyahu. Needless to say, these people, like most other Israeli leaders, adopt mendacity — even in its most brazen form — as their modus operandi. I know m
eate "virtual truths" based on lies. But we should not be surprised at or baffled by the odious audacity of psychopaths and pathological liars like Ayalon, his boss Avigdor Lieberman or, indeed, their Prime Minister Netanyahu. Needless to say, these people, like most other Israeli leaders, adopt menda
blic, for a bombing of the nuclear facilities at Natanz, Fordu and Isfahan using cutting-edge conventional, bunker-busting weapons. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his Defense Minister Ehud Barak are convinced that the "window" is closing in which such an attack would be effective, as Iran is in the proces
he poem met with international protests. Comparing Israel and Iran was "not brilliant, but absurd," said German Foreign Minister Guido Westerwelle. Netanyahu spoke of an "absolute scandal" and his interior minister banned Grass from entering Israel. But some people agreed with the author. Gansel, the SP
ho would later become head of the Israeli domestic intelligence agency, Shin Bet. Strategic Depth Even then it was becoming apparent, according to Ayalon, "that in the Middle East things were heading toward nuclear weapons," especially in Iraq. The fact that the Arab states were seriously interested
za Strip (Oslo II Agreement) (28 September 1995) 145 Temporary International Presence in Hebron (TIPH Agreement) (9 May 1996) 324 Declaration by PM Netanyahu and Chairman Arafat following their first meeting (4 September 1996) 327 Hebron Protocol (17 January 1997) 329 Note for the Record (17 January 1997)
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023139 →on agreement. The Battle of Jenin. UN Security Council Resolution 1405 on Jenin. Basic Palestinian Law. President G.W. Bush’s Rose Garden speech. Ayalon-Nusseibeh Statement of Principles. Report of the UN Secretary-General prepared pursuant to UN General Assembly Resolution ES-10/10 (Jenin Report).
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023157 →on steps such as the opening of border crossings and economic cooperation. In 1999, Labor Party leader Ehud Barak defeated incumbent Prime Minister Benja- min Netanyahu. As has been described above, the new Prime Minister broke radically with the concept of gradualism that had been the hallmark of negotiations betwee
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023170 →Entities connected to both Benjamin Netanyahu and Ayalon

Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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Jerusalem
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Tehran
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Ehud Barak
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Marc Rich
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Middle East
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Cairo
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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West Bank
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Hosni Mubarak
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Saddam Hussein
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Ronald Reagan
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Tel Aviv
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
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