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...anti-aircraft equipment, shells, rockets and various electronic systems. Even more important than equipment may have been the advanced tactical training and consultancy provided, as private contractors, by retired top Israeli generals such as Yisrael Ziv and Gal Hirsch, the man who commanded Israeli ground forces during their disastrous foray into Lebanon in 2006. (Never one to resist an opportunity to mock his enemies, Hizballah leader Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah quipped in a speech this week, "Gal Hirsch, who was defeated in Lebanon, went to Georgia, and they too lost because of him.") Not necessarily: Russia applied overwhelming force against...
...Israeli security sources say that Obama will be accorded "near presidential" security during his two-day visit to Israel, with a brief foray into the Palestinian territories to meet President Mahmoud Abbas. On his swing through Afghanistan, Iraq, the Middle East and Europe, Obama aimed to show voters that despite his limited experience in foreign affairs, he is a quick study...
...John F. Kennedy for engaging Nikita Khrushchev over disarmament. They yanked their support for Richard Nixon after he opened up talks with China. They even slammed the hallowed Ronald Reagan for negotiating with Mikhail Gorbachev. Thankfully, U.S. Presidents have generally had the good sense to assess each potential diplomatic foray on the basis of whether it might make Americans more secure. If the foot-stomping conservatives had been heeded at these critical junctures, they would have prevented negotiations that reduced tension, enhanced cooperation and may have prevented bloodshed...
...start in filmmaking in eighth grade. Always interested in his Jewish heritage, Miller became fascinated by the Jewish steam baths, or shvitz. One documentary later, Miller had laid the foundations for a career of turning personal passions into art. Several years after his first foray into filmmaking, Miller has a multi-faceted Visual and Environmental Studies (VES) thesis behind him and an undergraduate education’s worth of maturity...
...London, where he now lives, into the bright lights of Las Vegas. “It felt like a big party. Everyone was pretty young on the set and we all just had a blast,” said Sturgess. The film, which chronicles Ben’s foray into gambling as a means of paying his medical school tuition, also stars Kate Bosworth as his love interest and Kevin Spacey as the leader of Ben’s blackjack team. “I like how it’s about everyday people going against the system and coming...