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316Munich Pact<strong>The</strong> Munich Pact was anagreement permitting the Nazi German annexationof Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. <strong>The</strong> Sudetenland were areas along Czechborders, mainly inhabited by ethnic Germans. <strong>The</strong> agreement was negotiatedat a conference held inMunich, Germany, among the major powers of Europewithout the presence of Czechoslovakia. Today, it is widely regarded as afailed act of appeasement toward Nazi Germany.NasserGamal Abdel NasserHussein (January 15,1918 – September 28,1970) wasthe second President of Egypt from 1956 until his death. A colonel in theEgyptian army, Nasser led the Egyptian <strong>Revolution</strong> of 1952 along with MuhammadNaguib, the first president, which overthrew the monarchy of Egypt and Sudan,and heralded a new period of modernization and socialist reform in Egypttogether with a profound advancement of pan-Arab nationalism, including ashort-lived union with Syria.Nathan MileikowskyGrandfather of Prime MinisterBinyamin Nethanyahu and father of Benzion Netanyahu.Nathan Friedman YellinFriedman-Yellin (or Yalin ) wasborn in Grodno in the Russian Empire (now Belarus). He studied engineering atthe Warsaw Polytechnic. He was active in Betar and Irgun in Poland. Between1938 and 1939 he was the coeditor, along with Avraham Stern (Yair), of DiTat ("<strong>The</strong> State"), the Irgun's newspaper in Poland.He immigrated clandestinely with Stern to the British Mandate of Palestine andjoined Lehi, a Jewish paramilitary group, Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Hebrewacronym LHI - in English, Fighters for the Freedom of Israel; called by theBritish the Stern gang).Neturei KartaNeturei Karta (Jewish BabylonianAramaic: literally "Guardians of the City") is an Orthodox Jewish groupformally created in Jerusalem, British Mandate of Palestine, in 1938, splitting offfrom Agudas Yisroel. Neturei Karta opposes Zionism and calls for a peacefuldismantling of the State of Israel, in the belief that Jews are forbidden to havetheir own state until the coming of the Messiah. <strong>The</strong>y are in Jerusalem, RamatBeit Shemesh Bet (or B),Bnei Brak, London, New York City, and other partsof New York, with smaller communities in various cities around North America.

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