Word: baraker
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jamming devices, hovered about 100 miles outside Tunisian airspace, close enough to jam communications in the area. The Boeing 707 also served as a relay station between Israeli personnel off the Tunisian coast, the hit squad and I.D.F. headquarters in Tel Aviv. Throughout the operation, the commanding general, Ehud Barak, 47, the army's Deputy Chief of Staff, stayed aboard the vessel in the Mediterranean. Barak had participated in a similar operation in April 1973, when Israeli commandos raided Palestinian headquarters in Beirut, killing three P.L.O. leaders...
...Barak said soldiers had no choice but to use beatings in an attempt to curb the riots...
...Whatever amount of force is needed...is something that in my judgment is forced upon us by the situation," Barak told a news conference of foreign reporters...
...easily put the realities of life into a simple set of orders. The situation created during the control of a violent riot is much more complicated than it might seem," Barak said...
...Barak said the army is succeeding in "gradually [improving] the caliber of behavior of our forces." Barak added that, "We are confronting a new type of threat. We cannot afford to yield to it, and we are not going...