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ot tell him that I was actually proud of him for asking - which, although I'm sure he sensed it, was an omission I regretted when he lost his life in the Sinai Desert a few months later. But I did go see Dado. I told him what Amitai had said. He needed no convincing when I urged him to address the entire Beirut tea
1967 war had turned out to be hollow words. It was time for a new generation, and a new, more direct, form of confrontation with the "Zionist enemy." Arafat had set up camp with nearly a thousand men just across the Jordan River, in a town called Karameh. From early 1968, they had been launching hit- and-
ot tell him that I was actually proud of him for asking — which, although I’m sure he sensed it, was an omission I regretted when he lost his life in the Sinai Desert a few months later. But I did go see Dado. I told him what Amitai had said. He needed no convincing when I urged him to address the entire Beirut tea
967 war had turned out to be hollow words. It was time for a new generation, and a new, more direct, form of confrontation with the “Zionist enemy.” Arafat had set up camp with nearly a thousand men just across the Jordan River, in a town called Karameh. From early 1968, they had been launching hit- and-
mas in particular. It will also bring Hamas—next year and for the first time— into the PLO, the body charged with negotiating peace with Israel. Even Yasser Arafat resisted that development when he headed the PLO, and it seems obvious that Israel cannot negotiate peace with an anti-Semitic terrorist group bent o
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031836 →rious times in history, and sometimes smaller, but it normally holds all or part of these three regions. Israel is well-buffered in three directions. The Sinai Desert protects it against the Egyptians. In general, the Sinai has held little attraction for the Egyptians. The difficulty of deploying forces in the east
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031860 →Entities connected to both the Sinai Desert and Yasser Arafat

Jerusalem
LOCATION
George W. Bush
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
United States
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Ehud Barak
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Yitzhak Rabin
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATION
Ronald Reagan
PERSONSinai
LOCATION
Shimon Peres
PERSONMediterranean
LOCATION
Haifa
LOCATION
Michael Cohen
PERSON
Rabin
PERSON