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ect, which represents only 6 percent of Syria's population, would quickly lose power in a more democratic system. Most likely the dictator, like Mr. Mubarak before him, is seeking to deflect the demands for change with a mixture of violence and false promises. If that proves to be the case, the Obama adm
peech the public has been expecting. He is said to have waited because he didn't want to be caught in the same cycle as Egypt's desposed president, Hosni Mubarak, who made a series of speeches announcing modest concessions, each of which only fueled the demand for more. Assad appears to be holding his cards
non, could reach Tel Aviv. Syrian officials have denied supplying weapons to Hezbollah. In April, after Israel first accused Syria of supplying the Scuds to Hezbollah, Hasan Nasrallah, the head of the group, refused to comment. During a visit to Moscow this month, Israeli media reported, Netanyahu ple
lack of opportunity, and demands for a voice in their future. In less time than anyone would have expected only a year earlier, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down. The business, military, and political networks that made up his regime, however, are positioned to retain their privileges
ed only a year earlier, Egyptian president Hosni Mubarak was forced to step down. The business, military,
on fuse of the modified Scud missiles. They had one thing in common: They were made in Germany. Without German technology there would have been no Scuds, and without Scuds no dead Israelis. Once again, Germany bore some of the responsibility, and that was also the message that Hanan Alon, a senior I
ess he’d worked so closely with Yitzhak to achieve, organized an unprecedented show of international condemnation of the terror attacks. With Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, he co-chaired a “Summit of Peacemakers” in Sharm al- Sheikh with the participation not just of an equally concerned King Hussein, and of course Araf
mnation of the terror attacks. With Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, he co-chaired a “Summit of Peacemakers” in Sharm
re eat half of Israel” in a future war. And we could not assume this was mere rhetoric. Iraq had an arsenal of Soviet-made ballistic missiles. Called Scuds, they were not always accurate at long range. But they could reach Israeli towns and cities, and could carry not just conventional explosives but che
ess he'd worked so closely with Yitzhak to achieve, organized an unprecedented show of international condemnation of the terror attacks. With Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, he co-chaired a "Summit of Peacemakers" in Sharm al- Sheikh with the participation not just of an equally concerned King Hussein, and of course Araf
mnation of the terror attacks. With Egypt's Hosni Mubarak, he co-chaired a "Summit of Peacemakers" in Sharm
re eat half of Israel" in a future war. And we could not assume this was mere rhetoric. Iraq had an arsenal of Soviet-made ballistic missiles. Called Scuds, they were not always accurate at long range. But they could reach Israeli towns and cities, and could carry not just conventional explosives but che
Entities connected to both Hosni Mubarak and Scuds

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
PERSON
Tunisia
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Damascus
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Saddam Hussein
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Fatah
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Jerusalem
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West Bank
LOCATIONSinai
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Mahmoud Abbas
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
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Ehud Barak
PERSON
Kuwait
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Morocco
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Baghdad
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