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cabinet meeting the day before, by reviving an idea I’d supported under Rabin: to
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028136.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…m al- Sheikh with the participation not just of an equally concerned King Hussein, and of course Arafat, but leaders of Arab states from North Africa to Saudi Arabia and the Gulf. The only significant holdout was Syria’s Hafez al-Assad. He objected because he said the conference...

Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031917.txt Aug 22, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

Article 2. Stratfor Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching George Friedman August 22, 2011 -- In September, the U.N. General Assembly will vote on whether to recognize Palestine as an independent and sovereign state with full rights in the United Nations. In many ways, this would ap...

This book is only in part the story of my life — a life that, from my
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011480.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…n apparently endless supply of cigarettes, and we would just talk. Politics. Strategy. Israel. The PLO. The surrounding Arab states. And the wider world. Many years before I became Prime Minister, I gave a lecture at a memorial meeting for an Israeli academic. Not many people we...

Syria: Too Big to Fail?
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030073.txt May 12, 2011 House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…; it's part of the job description. In fact, in responding to the forces of change and repression loosed throughout the Arab world, flexibility is more important than ideological rigidity. The last thing America needs is a doctrine or ideological template to govern how it respon...

reforms in the name of “nation building.” Yet the newly-installed
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031718.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…sfied competing Western interests. Those newly-created nations, occupying territories defined by legal borders, ignored Arab history and tribal custom. Modern Western notions of distinct nations bound together by geography, language, self-determination or political ideals been re...

have an unrepresentative Parliament writing an unrepresentative
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030271.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…tat. ... If there are fair elections, the Muslim Brotherhood will only get 20 percent.” Free elections are rare in the Arab world, so when they happen, everybody tries to vote — not only the residents of that country. You can be sure money will flow in here from Saudi Arabia and...

regimes at a conference in Qatar that “the region’s foundations are
document IMAGES-008-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_024976.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ame,” White House chief of staff Bill Daley said dismissively. Hillary decided to push her case on March 12, after the Arab League voted to request action from the U.N. Security Council—an extraordinary decision to break Arab ranks and ask the nations they had for so long denoun...

based societies see not oppression in reasonably exercised authority
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_032201.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… Instead of a single personality with his picture on billboards to hate, as has been the case in Egypt, Syria and other Arab countries, there is a faceless triumvirate of leaders—the party chairman, the state president and the prime minister—that has delivered an average of 9 per...

I’d been impressed by President Bush’s political acumen in assembling an
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028085.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

I’d been impressed by President Bush’s political acumen in assembling an international coalition including the key Arab states. Through Unit 8200 in military intelligence, we would only very occasionally get verbatim transcripts of his conversations as he brought first the Saudis...

charges and he sought my help, which I was pleased to give. Eventually, he was cleared of all
document IMAGES-004-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017416.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… Germany. Human rights in Israel A human rights case that surely tested my commitment to universal rights involved an Arab-Israeli who was accused by Israel of assisting terrorism. He was being held in administrative detention, instead of being formally charged with a crime. I...