THE GULF WAR : Profile
Who: Benjamin Netanyahu, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister.
Born: 1950
Education: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Background: Former army captain, formerly Israel’s U.N. ambassador; a member of the Knesset, or Parliament, for Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir’s Likud Party; shares Shamir’s view against allowing a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza.
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