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11-25 July 2000 Camp David II negotiations between Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat. 25 July 2000 Camp David Statement. 28 September 2000 Likud leader Ariel Sharon’s visit to the Temple Mount/Haram al-Sharif, prompting major Palestinian riots. Second Palestinian uprising (al-Aqsa Intifadah) begins. 7 October 20
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l threat posed by Iran, does not seem to understand the nature of this other existential threat. His five predecessors as prime minister -- including Ariel Sharon, whose heart did not bleed for Palestinians -- understood it. President Obama understands it, too. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023532 --- PAGE BREAK --- 17 "
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the Israeli government nor AIPAC supporters in the United States considered Saddam Hussein nearly the threat that Iran was. Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon then warned President George W. Bush privately that he thought an attack on Iraq would be a mistake. After the Iraq vote, to prove its innocence,
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bor Party prime minister, whose government approved three times more new houses in small settlements in 2000 than Netanyahu did last year. In 2002, Ariel Sharon's government approved the construction of 960 new units — more than Netanyahu's 908 in 2013 — not long before Sharon decided to evacuate Gaza. Measu
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t Fact of the Week Podcast March is Israel Women's History Month THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY Israel's First Government Takes Office (1949) Ariel Sharon Elected Israel's 15th Prime Minister (2001) Mauritania Closes Israeli Embassy (2009) See More Jewish History Events March 7, 2016 Myths & F
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isoned him, and there are many more. Still, in the search for a motive to murder Arafat, it is hard to ignore Israel. In 2002, then-Prime Minister Ariel Sharon told the Israeli newspaper Ma'ariv that he regretted not having killed Arafat when Israeli forces invaded southern Lebanon in 1982. In 2003, then-D
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e in violation of the cease-fire arranged by the UN. We used a simple ruse for putting the blame on the enemy. The same technique was later used by Ariel Sharon to break the armistice on the Syrian front and provoke incidents there, in order to annex the so- EFTA00718140 called "demilitarized zones". Still
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nd bombs on the nearly completed Osirak nuclear reactor at the Tuwaitha complex in Iraq. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Defense Minister Ariel Sharon saw the reactor as central to Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's quest to build nuclear weapons, and they believed that it posed an existential threa
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), and thus a decision was made to assassinate him by the most senior leader of the [Zionist] entity state, criminal [former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel] Sharon... Our heroic Martyr Al-Karmi died from an explosive that the Zionist Israeli Security Agency planted in the wall of the cemetery, next to which he
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s gentle demeanor contrasted with the implacable, bulldozer style of other members of the founding generation, from Yitzhak Rabin and Golda Meir to Ariel Sharon and Menachem Begin. Peres sometimes seemed the bridesmaid at the Israeli political wedding, never quite achieving the status of some of his contemp
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As the flames mounted, Barak's electoral coalition, much of which he had alienated through careless and dictatorial management, began to crumble. Ariel Sharon, another former war hero who then led the Likud Party, offered to form a national unity government. Barak refused, deciding to take his chances in
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THIS WEEK IN JEWISH HISTORY France Orders Confiscation of All Jewish Books (1240) Israel Agrees to Sinai Withdrawal after Suez War (1957) Ariel Sharon Elected Israel's 15th Prime Minister (2001) See More Jewish History Events AICE PROJECTS 16. March 4, 2O15 Myths & Facts: Online Exclusive
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ther the radioactive poison was in his system. If that is the case, all fingers are pointing at two potential culprits; then Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon and Mohammad Dahlan, the former chief of Preventive Security in the Palestinian National Authority (PNA). Let us round up the usual suspects in Ara
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its primary function and the integral connection between colonial interests and its own aggressive projects. In Yediot Aharonot on 3 December 1974, Ariel Sharon (the former Israeli premier and the chief executor of the Sabra and Shatila massacre) wrote: "The Americans regard Israel as the bastion they can r
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tions, sign the framework agreement and hope that an exit ramp somehow materializes along the way. In short, he could do what the recently deceased Ariel Sharon would never do — let others dictate decisions about Israel's future. To some extent, however, the train has already left the station. Anything les
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From: PMW Bulletin To: jeevacationgginail.com Subject: " I 0 Palestinian children [killed]," was Ariel Sharon's birthday wish, says Abbas' appointee Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2017 12:31:28 +0000 ' ' '1.1] VJ Bulletin Sept. 19, 2017 Ariel Sharon's birthday wish was
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bu Razaq was appointed Director General of the Ministry of Interior, the first Arab citizen to become chief executive of a key government ministry. Ariel Sharon's original cabinet included the first Arab minister, Salah Tarif, a Druze who served as a minister without portfolio. An Arab is also a Supreme
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key to any military action," the former official told Newsweek. The weight of public opinion is also pressing on Netanyahu. Former prime minister Ariel Sharon used to tell people that to start a war, an Israeli leader needs broad public backing and an understanding with Washington (he learned the lesson f
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family sailed for Israel aboard a cattle boat, and they eventually settled in Bat Yam, south of Tel Aviv. As a soldier, Dagan won the admiration of Ariel Sharon. In 1970, Sharon ordered him to create a special "elimination" unit, dedicated to hunting down suspected terrorists in Gaza. Dagan worked in variou
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but that is not a sound principle of social organization. Might is not right. Yet that is the belief that guides the Bush administration. Israel's Ariel Sharon shares the same belief, and look where that has led. The idea that might is right cannot be reconciled with the idea of an open society. The obje

Benjamin Netanyahu
PersonPrime Minister of Israel (1996–1999; 2009–2021; since 2022)

Jerusalem
LocationCity in the Middle East, holy to the three Abrahamic religions

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017

Lebanon
LocationCountry in West Asia

Bill Clinton
PersonPresident of the United States from 1993 to 2001 (born 1946)

Mahmoud Abbas
PersonPresident of the Palestinian Authority since 2005

West Bank
LocationTerritory in the Middle East

Damascus
LocationCapital and largest city of Syria

Fatah
OrganizationPalestinian nationalist political party

Hosni Mubarak
PersonPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024

United States
LocationCountry located primarily in North America

Ehud Barak
Person10th Prime Minister of Israel

Yasser Arafat
PersonPalestinian political leader (1929–2004) and Former President of the Palestinian National Authority (1994-2004)

Terje Rod-Larsen
PersonNorwegian diplomat
Sharon
PersonAmbiguous first name - refers to multiple Sharons including Ariel Sharon, Sharon Churcher, and Mishmar Hasharon location

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

Tunisia
LocationCountry in North Africa

Cairo
LocationCapital city of Egypt

Saddam Hussein
PersonIraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician (1937–2006)