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the first sign that June 27, 1976 would be any different came shortly after noon. It was an urgent message from Lod Airport, now renamed in honor of David Ben-Gurion, who passed away after the 1973 war. Radio contact had been lost with Air France Flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris, shortly after a stopover in Athen
s, nine of us in all, Ron and I embarked on a trek from the southern edge of Jerusalem, weaving our way through the Judaean Desert toward Kumeran, on the Dead Sea. Now a very different war had come and gone. I’d fought in it. Ron, as what is now called an embedded journalist, had been with Danny Matt’s paratro
the first sign that June 27, 1976 would be any different came shortly after noon. It was an urgent message from Lod Airport, now renamed in honor of David Ben-Gurion, who passed away after the 1973 war. Radio contact had been lost with Air France Flight 139 from Tel Aviv to Paris, shortly after a stopover in Athen
s, nine of us in all, Ron and I embarked on a trek from the southern edge of Jerusalem, weaving our way through the Judaean Desert toward Kumeran, on the Dead Sea. Now a very different war had come and gone. I'd fought in it. Ron, as what is now called an embedded journalist, had been with Danny Matt's paratroo
the cabinet table, I asked Peres what he had to say to the "single child." His aides sniggered, but Peres didn't bat an eyelid: "Just what my mentor, David Ben-Gurion (Israel's first Prime Minister) told me: when the security of Israel is laid on one side of the scales, and everything else on the other side, securi
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029720 →the cabinet table, I asked Peres what he had to say to the "single child." His aides sniggered, but Peres didn't bat an eyelid: "Just what my mentor, David Ben-Gurion (Israel's first Prime Minister) told me: when the security of Israel is laid on one side of the scales, and everything else on the other side, securi
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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Barack Obama
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George W. Bush
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Saddam Hussein
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Jerusalem
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Ehud Barak
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United States
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Tehran
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Fatah
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Middle East
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Shimon Peres
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Rabin
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Damascus
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Cairo
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Yasser Arafat
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Hosni Mubarak
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West Bank
LOCATIONthe West Bank
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