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essful, it proffers doubtful leverage in his tug of war with Tel Aviv. Although Syria is an independent state, in 44 years it hasn't managed to pry the Golan Heights away from Israel; a Palestinian state is unlikely to do better with the 60 percent of the West Bank that remains under full Israeli control. Legall
4 the spiritual leader of the Shas Party and, by extension, of Israel's Sephardi ultra-orthdox community. Lior is currently the municipal rabbi of Kiryat Arba, the Jewish suburb of Hebron and bastion of Gush Emunim (the Bloc of the Faithful), which orchestrated the expansionist settlement movement in the
ade with him. The substance in any agreement, though politically difficult, was also more straightforward. We knew what Assad wanted: the recovery of the Golan Heights, in return for the absolute minimum level of political normalization with Israel. We knew what we wanted: security guarantees and assurances regardin
voice my condolences and the sense of outrage I shared over what had happened, and to urge them to do all they could to maintain calm. I then went to Kiryat Arba and conveyed the same message. Our immediate task was to prevent more deaths, on either side. It was a frustrating, and violent, week. Protests remi
ade with him. The substance in any agreement, though politically difficult, was also more straightforward. We knew what Assad wanted: the recovery of the Golan Heights, in return for the absolute minimum level of political normalization with Israel. We knew what we wanted: security guarantees and assurances regardin
voice my condolences and the sense of outrage I shared over what had happened, and to urge them to do all they could to maintain calm. I then went to Kiryat Arba and conveyed the same message. Our immediate task was to prevent more deaths, on either side. It was a frustrating, and violent, week. Protests remin
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Bashar al-Assad
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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George W. Bush
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Lebanon
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Jerusalem
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Bill Clinton
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Fatah
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Yasser Arafat
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Saddam Hussein
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West Bank
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Ronald Reagan
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Ehud Barak
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Michael Cohen
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