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re was agreed. However, at that time our troops had not yet succeeded in surrounding Beirut. So Sharon broke the cease-fire to cut the vital Beirut-Damascus highway. The present crisis in the "peace process" was caused by the Israeli government's breaking its agreement to release Palestinian prisoners o
omats. The pretext was flimsy as usual: an anti-PLO terrorist outfit had tried to assassinate the Israeli ambassador in London. When Prime Minister Menachem Begin was told by his Mossad chief that the assassins were enemies of the PLO, Begin famously answered: "For me, they are all PLO!" As a matter of fact,
icals would turn out to be the Palestinian Islamists of Hamas. Yet, Tuesday's announcement that the Hamas leadership has officially relocated from Damascus, and its public declarations of support for the Syrian rebels, suggest a dramatic political break with Iran — and with it the end of any illusion T
was occupied a few years later by settlers from the religious-Zionist Gush Emunim movement; in the late 1970s, it was authorized by Prime Minister Menachem Begin's Likud government. Today, it is the West Bank's third-largest settlement, drawing many secular Israelis attracted as much by its striking desert l
apostates. Hamas, in contrast, does not call for the overthrow of Arab regimes and works with Shiite Iran and the Alawite-dominated secular regime in Damascus, pragmatically preferring weapons, money, and assistance in training to ideological consistency. Hamas, like its parent organization, the Muslim Bro
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023526 →appened? Millions of Israelis are descendants of those who died in the Holocaust. In 1981, when Iraq threatened Israel, Israel’s then prime minister, Menachem Begin, ordered the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023542 --- PAGE BREAK --- 2] Israeli Air Force to destroy Iraq’s nuclear reactor and then declared that “Israel has
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023543 →l UN team, among them Fabrice Aidan, on my way to Damascus for a new round of talks with the President. Midw
rces Agreement. UN General Assembly Resolution 3379 (Zionism-Racism). Lebanese President Suleiman Frangieh invites Syrian troops into the country. Menachem Begin’s Likud Party wins Israeli national elections after 29 years of Labor Party dominance. In a speech in Cairo, President Anwar al-Sadat announces his r
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023152 →Entities connected to both Damascus and Menachem Begin

Barack Obama
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Bashar al-Assad
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Lebanon
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United States
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Bill Clinton
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George W. Bush
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Tehran
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Hosni Mubarak
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Tunisia
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Cairo
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Terje Rod-Larsen
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Hillary Clinton
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Saddam Hussein
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Yemen
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Middle East
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Fatah
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Marc Rich
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Jerusalem
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Joe Biden
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