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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
ot tell him that I was actually proud of him for asking — which, although I’m sure he sensed it, was an omission I regretted when he lost his life in the Sinai Desert a few months later. But I did go see Dado. I told him what Amitai had said. He needed no convincing when I urged him to address the entire Beirut tea
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
ot tell him that I was actually proud of him for asking - which, although I'm sure he sensed it, was an omission I regretted when he lost his life in the Sinai Desert a few months later. But I did go see Dado. I told him what Amitai had said. He needed no convincing when I urged him to address the entire Beirut tea
rious times in history, and sometimes smaller, but it normally holds all or part of these three regions. Israel is well-buffered in three directions. The Sinai Desert protects it against the Egyptians. In general, the Sinai has held little attraction for the Egyptians. The difficulty of deploying forces in the east
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031860 →as a central battleground at that moment. Israel slipped through the cracks. Once the question of Jewish unity was settled through ruthless action by David Ben Gurion's government, Israel faced a simultaneous threat from all of its immediate neighbors. However, as we have seen, the threat in 1948 was more apparent th
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031871 →Entities connected to both David Ben-Gurion and the Sinai Desert

Benjamin Netanyahu
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Lebanon
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Jerusalem
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Saddam Hussein
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Ehud Barak
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George W. Bush
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Fatah
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Damascus
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United States
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Shimon Peres
PERSONthe West Bank
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Hosni Mubarak
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Yasser Arafat
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Rabin
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Samaria
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Cairo
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the Jordan River
LOCATIONMediterranean
LOCATIONCourtney Wild
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