... Mordechai Vanunu. His information led experts to conclude that Israel had a stockpile of 100 to 200 nuclear devices, a far greater nuclear capability than had been previously estimated. A nuclear attack directed against targets almost anywhere in the Middle East would be well within Israel's capacities. Fighter-bombers of the Israeli air force could be adapted to carry nuclear bombs with ... . They would considerably enhance the navy's range and offensive capability. In 1988 the fleet contained approximately seventy combat vessels, including three submarines, three missile-armed hydrofoi...

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... In the same vein, Israel has no laws guaranteeing racial or religious equality. We take such laws for granted in modern western nations, but Israel is, at heart, an anachronistic throwback to an era of primitive racial and religious tribalism. Human Rights and Israel Israel has faced scrutiny on its lack of respect for human ... for one, only to see the Israeli army casually destroy it and kick your family out into the street with no compensation. But take heart; as you lay weeping in the street with your family while the soldiers destroy your house and your belongings, you can take ......

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... specifically Palestinian identity is asserted. One poet, Mahmud Darwish wrote: Record! I am an Arab Therefore! Record..at the top of the first page I do not hate people And I do not attack anyone But..If I become hungry I will eat the flesh of my usurper Beware..beware..of my hunger And of my anger! 36 Through this newly introduced poetic voice, the beginnings ... a lover, As the breeze strokes the tired worker's face, As one stranger smiles at another in friendship, As a bird returns to its dear nest, Ths Arab consciousness beats within my heart. 72...

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... and Nasser shortly after proposed resignation. However, the people would not allow him to do so and three years later, in 1970, he died of what was referred to as a heart attack. Anwar Sadat, a military officer who accompanied him in the revolution of 1952, succeeded Nasser. He too saw confrontation with Israel as the only method of solving Egypt's domestic problems. "Egypt ... ...

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