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…iew myself as a serious candidate at this stage. Moshe’s own preference seemed to be either Amir Drori, the head of the northern command during the Lebanon War, or Amnon Lipkin, the veteran paratroop commander who’d been with me on the Rue Verdun raid in Beirut. My own hope was t...

…ogram: H.R.2353) that would have reduced federal dollars for the Virgin Islands Defeated attempt by American Samoa and Northern Mariana to reallocate percentage of funding going to the USVI for other small territories Secured Commitment from Army Corp of Engineers for increased...

…ed, a bit grandiosely, Mivam el Yam: from sea to sea. We had to find our way from the Mediterranean, near Haifa, across northern Israel to a lake which was a sea only in name, the Sea of Galilee. It lasted three days. We were placed in teams of four. We were each given a topograp...

…ng demands for regime change was too much. They saw how Iran's influence has grown in Shiite-majority Iraq, along their northern border, and they were not prepared to let that happen again. As for the U.S., the Saudis saw calls for reform as another in a string of disappointments...

35 politically as well as by geography, thus freeing Israel to concentrate on the northern threats and opportunities. Israel and the Great Powers The threat to Israel rarely comes from the region, except when the Israelis are divided internally. The conquests of Israel occur w...

…biomes will be regularly reconfigured. One such setup will use cross sections of Arctic perma- frost, transported from northern Canada, so researchers can study how it reacts to rising tempera- tures: As the permafrost thaws, how much methane gas will be released? How will bacte...

…sty that had ruled China for nearly 200 years collapsed in the face of an invasion by wild Manchurian soldiers from the northern plains. The Song leadership - along with its best minds and cultural figures - fled south from Beijing for a thousand miles, until they were safely on...

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…ain. During its expansionary phase, the Ottoman Empire sought to dominate the eastern Mediterranean as well as both its northern and southern coasts. One thrust went through the Balkans toward central Europe. The other was toward Egypt. Inevitably, this required that the Ottomans...

…t Israelis were coming to realize was impossible as long as our soldiers remained in Lebanon. But the rocket attacks on northern Israel did stop, with very few exceptions, for a period that lasted nearly two years. The intifada, however, had not stopped. Nor, as I knew from my i...

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…w ground-to- ground missile, not yet formally in service, which had been sent into Lebanon without our knowledge by the northern command. While that trouble was averted, much worse lay ahead. Yanoush asked to be brought up to date on our progress in taking control of the area ar...

…ouldn’t persuade him. I’m sure he understood the argument, and he may even have agreed. But when Katyushas next fell on northern Israel, he as Minister of Defense, not I, would be the one in the political firing line. Far from straining our relations, our frank exchanges on Leba...

…enomenon whereby an existing politi- cal leadership is overthrown by a popular movement “Countries in western Asia and northern Africa, Ukraine and Thai- land, which have experienced street protests and even armed conflicts, have been led astray to the wrong path of Western-styl...

… presented a picture of vulnerability and victimhood: a kind of “fortress Israel” threatened by terror, missiles on its northern and southern borders, and now potential nuclear annihilation from Iran, while our main ally, the United States, was under the sway of a President who n...