Profiles eight Arab and Israeli leaders who have been instrumental in shaping the turbulent and sometimes triumphant histories of their lands.
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Hussein of Jordan : the "survivor king" -- Saddam Hussein : "he who confronts" -- Hafez al-Assad : "Assad is Syria and Syria is Assad" -- Hosni Mubarak of Egypt : fighter pilot at the controls -- Muammar Qaddafi : troublemaking revolutionary -- Yasir Arafat : "the cat with nine lives" -- Yitzhak Rabin : warrior in pursuit of peace -- Shimon Peres : politician with a vision.