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something else, which has been completely ignored in Israel: he gave up 78% of historical Palestine. The man who actually signed the agreement was Mahmoud Abbas. I wonder if his hand shook when he signed this momentous concession, minutes before Rabin and Arafat shook hands. Oslo did not die. In spite of t
nian people. I myself have spent many hundreds of hours of my life in trying to convince Israeli audiences that a Palestinian nation really exists. Golda Meir famously declared: "There is no such thing as a Palestinian people." I am rather proud of my reply to her, in a Knesset debate: "Mrs. Prime Ministe
s had a prime minister who was respected and admired by the Israelis, because he did not come from the same terrorist background as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Unlike his ideological comrades who insisted on "liberating Palestine," Salam Fayyad, was interested in building the infrastructure for a future sta
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033519 →aware and Syracuse Law School. One of his first overseas visits as a senator was to Israel, on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur War during which he met Golda Meir. "She read letters and told me how this young man or woman had died and this is their family. This went on for I don't know how long, and I guess she
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033523 →s had a prime minister who was respected and admired by the Israelis, because he did not come from the same terrorist background as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Unlike his ideological comrades who insisted on "liberating Palestine," Salam Fayyad, was interested in building the infrastructure for a future sta
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033530 →aware and Syracuse Law School. One of his first overseas visits as a senator was to Israel, on the eve of the 1973 Yom Kippur War during which he met Golda Meir. "She read letters and told me how this young man or woman had died and this is their family. This went on for I don't know how long, and I guess she
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_033534 →Entities connected to both Mahmoud Abbas and Golda Meir

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