Results for “United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon”

response,” he said. “I’ve committed us. Ehud, I want you to check what can be done. Take whatever you need, from wherever you want. Bring me suggestions by seven tomorrow morning.” Then, he said, we would go brief the Defense Minister, Shimon Peres. I assembled a team the same w...

3 1. The use of force by Israeli defense forces during the raid was unnecessary and disproportionate. This could have been avoided, but Israeli forces chose not to. 2. It would be appropriate for Israel to pay some sort of compensation to the families of those who were killed d...

…s political personalities have been tied to the group's terrorist and criminal activities. Consider a major case in the United States: In 2008, while Hezbollah operative Ali Karaki was planning a Hezbollah attack in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, his brother, Hasan Antar Karaki, was...

…mic world that Syria was the only nation-state supporting effective resistance to Israel. It also showed Israel and the United States that Syria alone could control Hezbollah and that forcing Syria out of Lebanon was a strategic error on the part of Israel and the United States.

…s political personalities have been tied to the group's terrorist and criminal activities. Consider a major case in the United States: In 2008, while Hezbollah operative Ali Karaki was planning a Hezbollah attack in Azerbaijan's capital, Baku, his brother, Hasan Antar Karaki, was...

…ed from the south, the outcome would be uncertain, to say the least, and the global balance of power was at stake. The United States used Iran to divert Iraq's attention. Israel was equally useful in diverting Syria's attention. So long as Israel threatened Syria from the south,...

…ology. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of forty by the American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting signif...

…with South America. Second, the end of populism in this region. Third, the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which will severely damage eco- nomic integration in the Americas, as shown by the recent demise of the US-led Trans-Pacific-Partnership agreemen...

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… afternoon in November 1947, I crowded into my parents’ room as the Haganah radio station crackled out its account of a United Nations debate on the future of Palestine. The session was the outcome of a long train of events starting with Britain’s acknowledgement that its mandate...

…warned Nasser of what they said were Israeli plans for a preemptive strike against Syria, he went further expelling the United Nations force put in place after the 1956 war. On May 23, he closed the Straits of Tiran, Israel’s trading gateway to the Red Sea and the source of virtu...

…with South America. Second, the end of populism in this region. Third, the election of Donald Trump as president of the United States, which will severely damage economic integration in the Americas, as shown by the recent demise of the US-led Trans-Pacific-Partnership agreement....

…ring with President Obama. The night before, as her plane was en route from Tunis, they had agreed that the vote of the United Nations Security Council to impose a no-fly zone on Libya meant that it was now decision time on launching a third American war in the Middle East, thoug...

…, with the army ensuring the country's security. The Assad clan is trying to convince the outside world, including the United States and the European Union, that the regime's fall could lead to chaos and sectarian wars. It claims the opposition is either too HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023...

…y is measured from the business cycle trough. Source: Investment Strategy Group, National Bureau of Economic Research. United States: Age Is Just a Number The US economic expansion is getting old by historical standards. At nearly eight years, it is already the fourth-longest i...