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tural buffer between Phoenicia and its successor entities (today's Lebanon) to the direct north. The best defense line for Israel in the north is the Litani River, but this is not an insurmountable boundary under any circumstance. However, the area along the coast north of Israel does not present a seriou
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lometers north of the border, and in some areas was even closer to Israel. I argued strongly in favor of getting out altogether. I accepted that the "Litani line" might help impede cross-border raids. But especially since the remaining Palestinian fighters and Hizbollah were acquiring newer Katyushas, wit
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Mahmoud Abbas
PersonPresident of the Palestinian Authority since 2005

Mao Zedong
Person1st chairman of the Chinese Communist Party and founder of the People's Republic of China (1893–1976)

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

Ehud Olmert
PersonPrime Minister of Israel from 2006 to 2009

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

Yigal Amir
PersonIsraeli extremist and murder convict

Soviet Union
LocationFormer country in Eurasia (1922–1991)

Barack Obama
PersonPresident of the United States from 2009 to 2017

Hosni Mubarak
PersonPresident of Egypt from 1981 to 2011

David Ben-Gurion
PersonIsraeli politician, Zionist leader, prime minister of Israel (1948–1953, 1955–1963) - (born1886–1973)

Henry Kissinger
PersonAmerican politician and diplomat (1923–2023)

Hillary Clinton
PersonAmerican politician and diplomat (born 1947)

Ehud Barak
Person10th Prime Minister of Israel

Dennis Ross
PersonAmerican diplomat

John F. Kennedy
PersonPresident of the United States from 1961 to 1963 (1917–1963)
Marc Rich
PersonAmerican commodities trader (1934–2013)

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

United States
LocationCountry located primarily in North America

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

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