ause of the breakdown in law and order in recent months. The attacks on the pipeline bringing Egyptian gas to Israel, and the recent terror attack in Eilat, are testimony to this. So while the "Shia crescent" may have suffered a strategic setback as a result of the upheavals in the Arab world, the space
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Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011573 →didn't rein in Arafat's men, Israel would take whatever action necessary. But the decisive moment came on the eighteenth of March. A school bus near Eilat, in the far south of Israel, hit a Fatah landmine, killing the driver and a teacher, and injuring 10 of the children. I was called up the night befor
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Saddam Hussein
PersonIraqi president, army officer and Baathist politician (1937–2006)

Hosni Mubarak
PersonPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

Morocco
LocationSovereign state in North Africa

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

Cairo
LocationCapital city of Egypt

Beirut
LocationCapital and largest city of Lebanon

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

Tunisia
LocationCountry in North Africa

Mahmoud Abbas
PersonPresident of the Palestinian Authority since 2005

Shimon Peres
PersonIsraeli politician (1923–2016) –Former President of Israel (2007–2014) and Prime Minister of Israel (1977, 1984–1986, 1995–1996)

Lebanon
LocationCountry in West Asia
the West Bank
Locationthe Palestine Liberation Organization
Organization
Bashar al-Assad
PersonPresident of Syria from 2000 to 2024
the Arab League
Organization
Kuwait
LocationSovereign state in Western Asia

East Jerusalem
LocationEastern part of Jerusalem, in dispute between Israel and the Palestinian Arabs since 1967

Damascus
LocationCapital and largest city of Syria

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017
Sinai
Location