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l's final borders. Under pressure from U.S. President George W. Bush, Olmert agreed to wait and try to negotiate a deal with Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas. In Bush's view, a negotiated deal would bring Israel the Palestinian commitments it needed, and bring Abbas the legitimacy he needed. Olmert, beli
rwhelmed by the war in Vietnam, had declined to run for reelection in 1968. Richard Nixon resigned less than seventeen months into his second term. Gerald Ford (who was never elected) and Jimmy Carter were defeated. By the nineteen- eighties, it had become popular to talk about the crisis of the Presidency
d end the tyranny in Iraq.’ And | did.” As if he were merely following divine orders. In July 2003, during a meeting with Palestinian Prime Minister Mahmoud Abbas, Bush told the newly elected leader, “God told me to strike at Al-Qaeda and | struck them, and then He instructed me to strike at Saddam, which | did
8. What with that whole 25" Amendment arrangement, | figured their chronological plan was to: 1. Get Spiro Agnew out of office. 2. Replace him with Gerald Ford. 3. Get me out of office. 4. Replace me with Ford. 5. Replace Ford (as vice president) with Rockefeller. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_015116 6. Knock off For
sympathize with the plight of the Palestinian people, [but] there is no love lost for Yassir Arafat." The report complains that, "the emergence of Mahmoud Abbas as the new Palestinian Prime Minister comes exactly at the wrong time." Why? "His ascent to power seems legitimate. He is a fresh face, and a clean
ified Max Fisher, a Detroit financier and billionaire, as a member of the Mega Group. Fisher was used as a private Middle East diplomat by President Gerald Ford during the 1970s and is considered Wexner's mentor. So, when the Wexner Analysis report was leaked, it caused a stir but no questioning of Wexner'
Entities connected to both Mahmoud Abbas and Gerald Ford

Jerusalem
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Barack Obama
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United States
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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Bill Clinton
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Tehran
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Cairo
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West Bank
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Marc Rich
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Middle East
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Yemen
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Tunisia
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Jeffrey Epstein
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Hillary Clinton
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