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d anti-American belligerence in the Arab countries most closely allied with the United States. This occasioned the observation of the noted historian Bernard Lewis that there were pro-American regimes with anti-American populations, and anti- American regimes with pro-American populations. I traveled to Jeddah
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Here he pointed me to a 2001 speech by former Iranian President Ali Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani calling Israel a "one-bomb country" and to the work of Bernard Lewis, the Princeton scholar who has compared Iran's regime to a doomsday cult willing to embrace the apocalypse.) Even if Iran never attacks, Barak cont
tives Cees van Lede, CEO Akzo Nobel, Arnhem Lee In-ho, President, Korea Foundation Gerald Levin, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Time Warner Bernard Lewis, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Emeritus, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ http://www.biblebelievers.org.au/weektc.htm 12/7/2005 07/26/1

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Mediterranean
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George W. Bush
PersonPresident of the United States from 2001 to 2009

Ehud Barak
Person10th Prime Minister of Israel

John F. Kennedy
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Michael Jackson
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Avigdor Lieberman
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