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1 David Kimche, The Last Option (London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1991), p. 10.
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2 For the continuing threat posed by the radical states, see Barry Rubin, The New Middle East: Opportunities and Risks (Ramat Gan Israel: BESA Center for Strategic Studies, 1995), p. 14
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3 This process was vividly described to the author by Feisal al-Husseini, one of the most prominent of the local leaders, during a conference that we both attended in Lausanne in 1989.
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4 Rabin also made this point clear in an interview on Israel Television on 6 September 1995
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5 Rubin, ibid, p. 4
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6 Rubin, ibid, p. 5
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7 See interview with General Sagie, former head of Israel's Military Intelligence, for an excellent appraisal of the respective stands of Syria and Israel on the security question, in Yediot Aharonot , 1 September 1995 (Hebrew)
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8 President Mubarak spoke of this fear in an interview with Oded Granot in Mariiv on 1 September 1995 (Hebrew)