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s sales to Israel but also in the joint attack on Egypt known as the 1956 Sinai-Suez War. The French needed Israel to help topple Egypt's President Gamal Abdul Nasser who supported their opponents in Algeria. The side payment their Socialist leaders were willing to provide Israel was a 26-megawatt nuclear researc
ance which led Saddam Hussein out of Kuwait around 20 years ago, while prior to that, he had established the Arab Cooperation Council with Baghdad, Amman and Sana'a to remain a partner in the security of the Gulf where more than two and a half million Egyptians work, and where the largest Arab econom
sia in the past several months—most conspicuously, Egypt. Following his categorical and embarrassing defeat in the Six-Day War, Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser, already a Soviet client, reaffirmed his fealty to Moscow Centre by telling Nikolai Podgorny, the Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet:
slated at around $10 billion. Rusatom Overseas will do the operating; Atomstroyexport will send the technology to the Amra, a desert area north of Amman, where the plant will be built by 2023. Just days earlier, Ali Akbar Salehi, the head of the Atomic Energy Organization of Iran, announced that Rus
ee Officers Movement. 18 June 1953 The Revolutionary Command Council (RCC) abolishes the monarchy and proclaims the Republic of Egypt. 23 June 1956 Gamal Abdel Nasser is elected President of the Republic of Egypt. 26 July 1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. 29 October 1956 Suez Crisis. Isr
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023151 →IPH II agreement. 21 January 1997 Israel-Jordan QIZ agreement. 25 September 1997 _ Israel’s assassination attempt on Hamas leader Khaled Meshaal in Amman. 23 October 1998 Wye River Agreement signed by Arafat and Netanyahu. 14 December 1998 The Palestinian National Council convenes in the presence of
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023155 →VERSIGHT_030159 --- PAGE BREAK --- 5 Article 2. Project Syndicate The Middle East's Slow-Motion Revolution Prince El Hassan bin Talal 2011-06-21 -- AMMAN - There seem to be a thousand and one interpretations of the changes sweeping across the countries of the Middle East and North Africa. One response
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030160 →olving Foreign Policy Richard Javad Heydarian June 21, 2011 -- Egypt was once a major player in the Middle East, particularly under the leadership of Gamal Abdel Nasser in the 1950s and 1960s. Over the last decades, Egypt gradually lost its prestige and influence in the region as it became an introverted autocratic r
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030171 →Entities connected to both Gamal Abdel Nasser and Amman

George W. Bush
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United States
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Cairo
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Condoleezza Rice
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Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Tehran
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Lebanon
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Marc Rich
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Mao Zedong
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Hosni Mubarak
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John F. Kennedy
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Tunisia
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Damascus
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Vicky Ward
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Bill Clinton
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Saddam Hussein
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Yemen
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