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Israel’s Defense

From the March 2009 Print Edition

Israel has seldom impressed the world as much as it did during the 1976 Entebbe Raid, when about a hundred Israeli troops mounted a rescue operation against a group of Palestinian and German hijackers who had threatened to kill their hostages (almost all Jewish) unless Israel released fifty-three . . . . Continue Reading »