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… thought he saw movement on the road outside. But it turned out to be nothing. It wasn’t until well into 1949 that formal agreements were signed and “armistice line” borders drawn with the Arab states. By the measure that mattered most — survival — Israel had won and the Arab at...

…es to power that look extremely reasonable until one day they look insane. For thousands of years the idea that one feudal lord should control thousands of serfs seemed perfectly reasonable to the lords and serfs alike. John Maynard Keynes’ famous line about Egypt - Just because...

Sephardim resented about the Ashkenazi, Labor Zionist establishment. Begin, at his rally, played it like a virtuoso. “Did you hear what they called you?” he cried. Chachachim. He slightly mispronounced the word, as if he’d never heard, much less used, it before, and that even hav...

… 316, 351 free will and 315 Deutsch, David xi, 56, 293, 309 Dexter, Colin 260 Dick, Philip K 324 diffusion MRI 106 digital art 129 Digital Equipment 307 digitization 289 of life 293 Dijkstra, Edgar 3 Dilbert 313 Diophantine equations 238, 239, 240, 249, 251 Diophantus 239 diverge...

Among the most important historic achievements we take pride in is the building of the national Emirati identity which did not exist before the rise of the Union state. This identity settles deep down in the souls of all Emiratis, runs in their blood-veins, and fills them with fe...

Both films are sensational and movie goers go nuts, but it is "The King's Speech" that edges out the competition for The Audience Prize. Mid-November David 0. Russell and Mark Wahlberg, working together for the third time, sneak "The Fighter" in Manhattan. As their audience erup...

But a series of accidents, in Israel’s life and in mine, would soon point me in a dramatically different direction. The first became known as the Rotem Crisis, and it delivered a jolting reminder of Israel’s vulnerability to a surprise attack from neighboring Arab states. Militar...

…k their threats, opportunities, strategies and interests. They can hunker down until more clarity or they act (big or small). There is a feeling that Israel has some acts they can take that would improve their positioning. Iran is the most immediate and big issue. Cannot have an...

…rael’s first, failed counterattack in the early days of the war. We would risk being wiped out. As far as I could tell, all the surviving paratroopers had been brought out or had managed to hobble to the irrigation ditch. I ordered Sukenik to abandon his attempt to take out the S...

…rate warning to the military council, which assumed power after President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster. The military had initially pledged to hand over control to civilians by September, but it now says that a presidential election will not occur before 2013. And last week it laid out...

tower and the pipeline. But when we reached the site of the underground communications cable, the mission literally ran into the ground. We dug for more than two hours, but still hadn’t found the cable, and our mail-order metal detector stubbornly refused to chirp out any sign of...

Chapter Four At first, it was only “approval in principle”. It’s impossible to overstate the trepidation with which Israel’s military brass, and Ben-Gurion himself, approached the decision finally to send Sayeret Matkal into action. It was not just the fact that we were a unit u...

…cks on September 11, 2001, 392 F.Supp.2d 539 (2005) 10 A.L.R. Fed. 2d 789 Saudi-based charities that were sponsors of al Qaida’s operations, including ITRO, MWL, WAMY, BIF, SHC, SJRC, and al Haramain. (Federal Compl. Jf 442-43.) 31 The Federal Plaintiffs seek leave to suppleme...

June 2017 Breaking Down Democracy: Goals, Strategies, and Methods of Modern Authoritarians by Arch Puddington CONTENTS Executive Summary 1 Introduction: Modern Authoritarians: Origins, Anatomy, Outlook 5 Chapters 1. Validating Autocracy through the Ballot 10 2. Propaganda at Hom...

…rossing. When I reported that three of my soldiers were still missing, I was ordered to inform the commander of the battalion replacing us to find the missing men. The fight for the Chinese Farm was still not over. It would be another 12 hours before, in a co-ordinated push by a...