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storic moment? For new approaches toward an Israeli- Palestinian peace, like the Israeli Peace Initiative proposed two weeks ago by former heads of the Israeli Defense Force, Mossad, and Shin Bet? For working with the European Union to help Egypt and Tunisia improve their economies and consolidate democracy the way the
an anyone had predicted, and with potentially cataclysmic consequences nobody dares imagine. This Friday, the shock came in Syria, where President Bashar al-Assad runs one of the Middle East's most repressive regimes. Across the country, protesters have grown ever more emboldened in recent weeks, and on Frida
e grown ever more emboldened in recent weeks, and on Friday they poured into the streets by the tens of thousands to face the deadly fusillades of Assad's security forces. More than 70 died. What did the White House have to say? From Air Force One: "We call on all sides to cease and desist from the
and injured hundreds more. The country was in no mood for another war. The newly created Israeli armed forces — known as 7zahal, a Hebrew acronym for the Israeli Defense Force — also seemed to have lost the cutting edge, or perhaps the desperate motivation, of the pre-state militias. At first, Ben- Gurion relied on young re
e deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated
and injured hundreds more. The country was in no mood for another war. The newly created Israeli armed forces — known as 7zahal, a Hebrew acronym for the Israeli Defense Force — also seemed to have lost the cutting edge, or perhaps the desperate motivation, of the pre-state militias. At first, Ben- Gurion relied on young re
e deal with Syria’s then-dying dictator, Hafez al-Assad, a few months earlier. Yet these three dedicated
Entities connected to both the Israeli Defense Force and Bashar al-Assad

Barack Obama
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United States
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Bill Clinton
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Damascus
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Middle East
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Tunisia
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Cairo
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Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Yemen
LOCATION
Marc Rich
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Fatah
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West Bank
LOCATION
Michael Cohen
PERSONSinai
LOCATIONthe West Bank
LOCATIONMediterranean
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