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hawk
bird of prey in the subfamily Accipitridae. Includes genera of Accipiter (goshawk and European sparrowhawk). The unrelated American sparrowhawk (Falco sparverius) is a member of the falcon family.


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Peres, who once hawkishly rejected any compromise with hostile Arab states, says he was converted after 1977, when Egyptian president Anwar Sadat made a historic visit to Jerusalem, leading to the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty.
The hawkishly sharper rhetoric is a stark change from that which was given in the minute of their meeting five weeks ago.
Likewise, the critics find it hard to believe that someone who was once on friendly terms with a Palestinian-American scholar can be as straightforwardly, hawkishly pro-Israel as Obama actually is.
 
 
 
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