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Nonetheless, this ad chose to recognize Haim Saban. Who is Haim Saban? See entry six: “Mighty Morphin’ Power Rangers was produced by Haim Saban, an Israeli whose family fled persecution in Egypt...
...dream was short-lived. Egypt's Gamal Abdul Nasser emerged as the personification of Arab nationalism after surviving the Israeli-British-French attack in the Suez Crisis of 1956. But his empty threats led to the disastrous Six-Day War in 1967, when Israel seized huge chunks of Syrian, Jordanian as well as Egyptian territory in a lightning strike...
...Arab independence after World War I. The Arab defeat in their 1948 war to prevent the emergence of Israel had promoted an increasingly militant variety of Arab nationalism. Young army officers - Saddam's heroes - overthrew the old order in a succession of coups in key countries such as Syria, Egypt and Iraq...
...Saddam turned Iraq's branch of that party into a front organization serving his Tikrit family mafia and his own Stalinist cult of personality. And that inevitably produced the bungling that led Iraq into the disastrous wars with Iran, Kuwait and the United States. Nasser lost a chunk of Egypt; Saddam lost all of Iraq...
...drive to comprehensively remake the politics of the Middle East. By bringing democracy to Iraq and tilting it toward the West, they hope to launch a process that challenges the authoritarianism and extremism that nurtures terrorism and hostility to the West and Israel in countries ranging from Egypt and Saudi Arabia to Syria and Iran. They are, by and large, strong supporters not only of Israel, but of the hard-line policies of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, and they argue that winning Washington's own war on terrorism requires a long-term reengineering of Arab societies...