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plied to the Middle East for so long that nothing, it seems — no amount of extraordinary change — can silence them. After the successful revolts in Cairo and Tunis, the slanders abated. Soon, however, the old messages depicting the Middle East as extreme, fundamentalist, and hostile to democracy bega
d aggravating. Iran relies heavily on the Alawite regime in Syria to maintain a foothold in the Levant through groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since the return of Syria to Sunni control would unravel a key pillar of Iranian deterrent strategy, we can expect tha
apolis Joint Understanding (27 November 2007) 539 Olmert-Abbas Peace Talks (December 2008) 541 US President Barack Obama’s Speech on a New Beginning (Cairo Speech) (4 June 2009) 542 Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech at Bar Ilan University (14 June 2009) 553 Chair’s Summary of the Ad Hoc Liaison Committ
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023141 →the West Bank. The IDF found their bodies on 30 June in the vicinity of Hebron. In retaliation, Israel launched attacks against targets of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. A Palestinian teenager was abducted and killed in Jerusalem by a group of Israelis. This triggered a series of violent clashes. Israel launches ope
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023161 →*96 sponsored more than 700 Arab operatives to travel to Afghanistan to train as jihadist terrorists.” JA2596. International media reported “that the Cairo office of the IRO was managed by the bin Laden family and Mohamad Showki Al Istanbul, who was sentenced to death in Egypt for his Islamic extremist a
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023393 →pleadings allege that Saudi American Bank has a close *105 relationship with the Saudi Bin Laden family and “directly and materially supported Hamas, Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and other terrorist groups in that region” by “participat[ing] in the scheme to fund terrorists in Gaza and the West Bank.” /d. at 58; JA3089. DMI
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023395 →empire in New York, the military power embodied by the Pentagon— had been hit. Sweets were handed out in East Jerusalem, there were no tears shed in Cairo for the Americans, more than three decades of U.S. aid notwithstanding. Everywhere in that Arab world—among the Western-educated elite as among the I
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025016 →addition to Iran itself, the Hezbollah movement in Lebanon, the Sadrist movement and other Shia Islamist currents in Iraq, Syria's Assad regime, and the Palestinian Islamic Jihad organisation. It appeared in recent years also to be absorbing Hamas. The mugawama bloc presented itself as the representative of authentic Islamic c
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025019 →applied to the Middle East for so long that nothing, it seems - no amount of extraordinary change - can silence them. After the successful revolts in Cairo and Tunis, the slanders abated. Soon, however, the old messages depicting the Middle East as extreme, fundamentalist, and hostile to democracy began
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030160 →oid aggravating. Iran relies heavily on the Alawite regime in Syria to maintain a foothold in the Levant through groups like Hezbollah in Lebanon and Palestinian Islamic Jihad and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Since the return of Syria to Sunni control would unravel a key pillar of Iranian deterrent strategy, we can expect that
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030165 →Entities connected to both Cairo and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Barack Obama
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United States
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George W. Bush
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bashar al-Assad
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Hosni Mubarak
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Lebanon
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Tehran
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Yemen
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Bill Clinton
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Jerusalem
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Tunisia
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Middle East
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Damascus
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Bahrain
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Fatah
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Saddam Hussein
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Department of Justice
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