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he 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 to re-in
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
425 and 426 (Lebanon). Camp David Accords. Arab League Summit in Baghdad. Egypt suspended from the Organiza- tion. Its headquarters to be moved to Tunis. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023152 --- PAGE BREAK --- OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi Chronology xxi 10 December 1978 President Sadat and Prime
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023153 →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 →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 to re-insi
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 Tunis and Palestinian Islamic Jihad

Barack Obama
PERSON
Cairo
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United States
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Tunisia
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Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
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George W. Bush
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Yemen
LOCATION
Tehran
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Middle East
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Bahrain
LOCATION
Tripoli
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
North Africa
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Jerusalem
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