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...been sold to the Baathist government by France in November 1975. The air strike, known as “Operation Babylon,” was carried out to prevent Hussein’s engineers from constructing a nuclear weapon that could have been used against Israel. Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin stressed that a pre-emptive disabling of the Osirak reactor was wholly justified as a means of national self-defense...
...Rabbi Menachem Raab, former dean of a Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach, retired to Israel two and a half years ago. A registered Democrat in Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate...
...Rabbi Menachem Raab, former dean of a Hillel Community Day School in North Miami Beach, retired to Israel two and a half years ago. A registered Democrat in Dade County, Raab voted for Gore on his absentee ballot. "It's mind-boggling, very unfathomable, that all of a sudden this vote counts," he says. "I think it's very exciting that an individual vote of people living in Israel affects the American scene." And that's a notion that's awakened even some Floridian exiles who didn't bother to cast their ballot. Suggestions in the Israeli media that legitimate...
...Aspen cottage. Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak is in Dogwood, Arafat is in Birch, and the delegations all dine together in Laurel. The place is so spread out that some of the participants tool around in golf carts. One Aha! revelation: in 1978, Anwar Sadat stayed in Dogwood, and Menachem Begin was in Birch. Everyone's pondering the significance of this switcheroo...
...Barak: No. Look, Lebanon is a tragedy. It's not my definition, it's the definition of one of my predecessors, Menachem Begin, who ordered [the army to enter] Lebanon for 48 hours to push a little bit the Palestinians at that time. And when the death toll accumulated to 600, he said, it's a tragedy, I cannot stand it anymore, and he isolated himself at his home. Since then, we are still there for 15 years and another 500 or 400 people [died]. We have more than a thousand families in Israel that buried their sons there...