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g the Syrian people instead of the Israelis. Finally, we would have to mention [Mohamed Hassanein] Heikal's headlines, which, during in the days of Gamal Abdel Nasser, used to read that Israeli planes were dropping like flies... There are many examples and you would need a book to list them all. We are not dealin
ntry's best days are gone. "Americans are tired after the war in Iraq and also after Afghanistan," says Obama advisor and former Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. This exhaustion, when combined with the traumatic terrorist attacks of 2001, has weakened the social glue that held America together in the 20th
archy had been toppled in a coup organized by a group of army officers led by a stridently pan- Arabist — and anti-Israeli — lieutenant colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser. Egypt began providing not just tacit support for the fedayeen in Gaza, but arming and training them and helping organize cross-border attacks. Then,
er. And we realised that only in an environment like Camp David — a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — would we ever discover whether a peace deal could in fact be done. Now, we knew. Israel’s equivalent of Air Force One, perhaps in a nod to our co
archy had been toppled in a coup organized by a group of army officers led by a stridently pan- Arabist — and anti-Israeli — lieutenant colonel named Gamal Abdel Nasser. Egypt began providing not just tacit support for the fedayeen in Gaza, but arming and training them and helping organize cross-border attacks. Then,
er. And we realised that only in an environment like Camp David — a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — would we ever discover whether a peace deal could in fact be done. Now, we knew. Israel’s equivalent of Air Force One, perhaps in a nod to our co
Entities connected to both Gamal Abdel Nasser and Madeleine Albright

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Hosni Mubarak
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George W. Bush
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Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
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United States
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Bill Clinton
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Middle East
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Jerusalem
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Tunisia
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Damascus
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Tehran
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Yemen
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Marc Rich
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Ehud Barak
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Samantha Power
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