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ely connected to Iran. But these rocket attacks cannot be separated from the ongoing silent war between Iran and Israel on several fronts in Syria, Lebanon and now in Palestine. The difference here is that Palestinian rockets that were primitive three years ago have now grown into a full arsenal that i
irs. "Almost by any definition they have become more institutionalized," said Nathan Thrall, an analyst who covers the Palestinian territories for the International Crisis Group. "They more or less have been keeping a calm in Gaza. A very imperfect calm, and one that has escalations every three or four or five months, but
n of Iraq in 2003. Photo: Youtube/Brown Moses Governments and bor=ers are under siege elsewhere, as well. For more than a year, Shiite milit=as from Lebanon have moved into Syria and operated as a virtual arm of the=Syrian government. Meanwhile, so many Syrian refugees have gone in the opposite directio
l-Mal=ki, who has made every effort to destroy any credible leadership among the=Sunnis attempting to join the government. According to a repo=t by the International Crisis Group, a nongovernmental group that works on=conflict resolution, Maliki has cast out prominent Sunni leaders on the ba=is of their connections to Saddam'
r in the region through soft balancing. Specifically, Ankara would undermine Tehran's influence in Palestinian politics and its dominance in Iraq, Lebanon, and Syria by getting closer to those states itself. So, even as Ankara pursued better relations with Saudi Arabia, it continued to engage Iran, e
C's success, on any given day, resided in these hard-won personal relationships. Still, the mission was not without its critics. In a 2010 report, the International Crisis Group noted EFTA_R1_02205148 EFTA02721228 erroneously, "With the improvement of Palestinian capacity ... the security reform project has gone on auto
Entities connected to both Lebanon and the International Crisis Group

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Bashar al-Assad
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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Tehran
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Damascus
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Jerusalem
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Department of Justice
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Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Hillary Clinton
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Ehud Barak
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