[Piranha]

If you don't remember, Israel was under enormous pressure from the US not to strike back in the Gulf War, and Lawrence Eagleburger was sent to Israel to restrain Shamir's hands. It was the most painful time in Israel's history, and marked the beginning of a 10-year period when Israel was not allowed to defend itself. While we tried to prevent the scuds from landing on Israel, in fact we did very little that helped Israel. The Patriot Missiles that were set up in Israel to shoot down the incoming scuds actually failed (with, I think, one exception).

James (F-ck the Jews) Baker then used this forced impotence to twist Shamir's arm into showing up at the Madrid Conference where we tried to slice and dice our ally.

[carton253]

twist their arm...

Just a nice way to write "coerced and blackmailed" Israel to show up at the Madrid Conference, which is what happened.