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  • View of three of five French missile boats bought by the Israeli government arriving in the port of Haifa on the night of Jan. 1, 1970. The Cherbourg Project was an Israeli military action in 1969 involving the escape of the five missile boats from the French port of Cherbourg that had been paid for by Israel but had not been delivered due to the French arms embargo in 1969.
    View of three of five French missile boats bought by the Israeli government arriving in the port of Haifa on the night of Jan. 1, 1970. The Cherbourg Project was an Israeli military action in 1969 involving the escape of the five missile boats from the French port of Cherbourg that had been paid for by Israel but had not been delivered due to the French arms embargo in 1969.
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    The Boats of Cherbourg

    The dramatic Christmas Eve, blockade-busting escapade that delivered game-changing French missile boats to Israel’s navy 50 years ago today

    byAbraham Rabinovich
  • Picture released on November 1956 of soldiers standing among ruins and destroyed canon, in Port Said, Egypt, during the Suez crisis.
    Picture released on November 1956 of soldiers standing among ruins and destroyed canon, in Port Said, Egypt, during the Suez crisis.
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    The Book That Obama Won’t Read, But Hillary Clinton Should

    Sixty years after the Suez Crisis, two new histories of the Egypt-Israel conflict try to garner lessons on the Mideast and American power in a changing world

    byAdam Kirsch
  • (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine. Train photo Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project)
    (Photoillustration Tablet Magazine. Train photo Yehudit Garinkol via the PikiWiki - Israel free image collection project)
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    Will Bibi’s Chinese Choo-Choo Train Save Israel and Transform the Middle East?

    A bold new freight railway bypassing the Suez Canal may annoy Egypt and the United States, but that’s not the goal

    byJon Emont
  • Egyptians walk past a huge poster of Egypt's former Defense Minister and armed forces chief General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi outside the High Court in downtown Cairo, on March 27, 2014.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
    Egyptians walk past a huge poster of Egypt's former Defense Minister and armed forces chief General Abdul Fatah Al-Sisi outside the High Court in downtown Cairo, on March 27, 2014.(Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)
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    Egypt Is on the Brink of Chaos. Here’s Why It Should Matter to Washington.

    Three years after Mubarak’s fall, the country is toying with global irrelevance—except as a possible terror exporter

    byLee Smith
  • Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, and Dwight Eisenhower.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images and AFP/Getty Images.)
    Chuck Hagel, Barack Obama, and Dwight Eisenhower.(Collage Tablet Magazine; original photos Brendan Smialowski/AFP/Getty Images and AFP/Getty Images.)
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    Eisenhower’s New Fans

    Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel look to the 34th president as a foreign-affairs model. But is it a willful misreading?

    byLee Smith
  • The sun setting over the Nile Sunday night.(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
    The sun setting over the Nile Sunday night.(Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)
    Israel & The Middle East section icon
    Post-Revolutionary

    The Egyptian protests that overthrew Hosni Mubarak failed to change the underlying realities of military domination, entrenched anti-Semitism, and limited foreign policy options

    byLee Smith
  • (Library of Congress)
    (Library of Congress)
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    Promises to Keep

    Jonathan Schneer’s history of the Balfour Declaration frames a still-unfolding struggle

    byItamar Rabinovich
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