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al controversies, and major and minor events in the capital, up and down the Nile from Alexandria to Aswan, and along the fringes of the country, in Sinai, Al-Wadi Al-Gadid and Marsa Matrouh. The chaos, aggravated by mounting polarisations between the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), the Mu
security relationship during the Cold War remain valid today. Israel is a bulwark against radical Islamism in the Levant, as embodied by Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad, and a quiet but effective ally of Jordan. U.S. military support helps bolster Israeli deterrence against hostile state and nonstate actors, while m
President of the Republic of Egypt. 26 July 1956 President Nasser of Egypt nationalizes the Suez Canal. 29 October 1956 Suez Crisis. Israel invades Sinai (Operation Kadesh) with the covert assent of France and the UK. 30 October 1956 France and the UK launch military operations against Egypt. 5 Novemb
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023151 →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 →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 →adership also sought by Iran. In Egypt, too, the Muslim Brotherhood and other Islamist forces look set to reap an electoral dividend in November. The Sinai area has already become a zone of activity for Islamist terror directed against Israel, because of the breakdown in law and order in recent months. T
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025021 →Entities connected to both Sinai and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

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