Word: peninsulas
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...military commander in Israeli history. It's what enabled him, from a variety of Cabinet posts, to construct settlements in the face of international opprobrium. But it's also what allowed him not only to evacuate Gaza but, 23 years earlier, to tear down settlements in Egypt's Sinai peninsula and use water cannons to force out the Israelis there, putting Israel in compliance with Israel's 1979 peace treaty with Egypt...
...Palestine. Six years later he fought in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that erupted after Israel declared its independence. As he rose through the ranks, he played a significant role in every one of Israel's wars. In 1967 he commanded one of three divisions that wrested the Sinai peninsula from Egypt. In 1973 he led a counterattack in Sinai that broke through Egyptian lines and ended up just 60 miles outside Cairo...
...live to tell tales of the marauding buccaneers who currently infest the sea-lanes of Southeast Asia. Piracy has become an all too real contemporary scourge for fishing and commerce across an expanse of ocean stretching from the Malay peninsula to the Philippines. Sumatran pirates constantly harass coastal freighters and fishermen in the Straits of Malacca ... Pleasure boats headed toward Bali from Hong Kong and Thailand are warned to stay away from the Celebes Sea. Cutlass and sword are pass?. Asian pirates today pounce from hidden coves in supercharged speedboats or trawlers armed with automatic rifles, M-79 grenade launchers...
...Korean broadcasting network]." Quizzed about the same issue aboard Air Force One on the way to South Korea, Bush national security aide Michael Green acknowledged that "the tone is different sometimes" and that "sometimes you get a slightly different emphasis," although the goal of a non-nuclear Korean Peninsula is the same. "For the people of the Republic of Korea, the Demilitarized Zone is right at their doorstep," noted Green, senior director for Asian affairs at the National Security Council. "Seoul is as close to the DMZ and North Korean artillery as the White House is to Dulles Airport...
...open secret that Washington and the government of Roh Moo Hyun have differed on everything from the U.S. armed forces' mission in South Korea to the best way to nudge North Korea into a state of peaceful modernity. Sure, the six-party talks on the future of the peninsula achieved something of a breakthrough in September, when Pyongyang seemed to agree to forego its nuclear ambitions in return for economic assistance. But the South-desperate not to see a collapse north of the DMZ-would like to give the North more aid, and sooner than Washington contemplates. From Korea, Bush...