Where Raful appears
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…lapsed or was delayed. Shortly before sunset, Yanoush left by helicopter for a field commanders’ meeting with Raful in northern Israel. That left me in charge, alongside Yanoush’s de facto chief-of-staff, Amram Mitzna. A decorated veteran o...
Raful chaired a wide-ranging discussion on Lebanon. Near the end of
to go, and Begin refused to fire him. Yet in the end, popular pressure forced the issue. When another demonstration was called in protest at Sharon’s continuing as Defense Minister, a right-wing political activist tossed a grenade into the...
…angists and put a stop to their actions.” Arik bore personal responsibility for this, the report said. So did Raful, and the head of military intelligence, Yehoshua Saguy. The commission 208 recommended that Begin fire Sharon and Saguy. The...
…ur initial response would be limited: aerial and artillery bombardment of PLO targets throughout Lebanon. Yet Raful told the cabinet that the Palestinians would almost certainly respond with shell and rocket fire into Israel. Then, he said,...
it was a close-run thing. Raful called me in to see him and said he
but Arik made it clear to both me and Raful that he was boss.
…owed, there was a confident feeling among Arik and his inner circle in the Airya. To the extent that Arik and Raful saw any cloud on the horizon, it was their concern about “several thousand” Palestinian fighters who they were certain had s...
…ration. It overlooked a pair of Palestinian refugee camps: Sabra and, a couple of hundred yards closer to us, Shatila. Raful was with us as well. So was Moshe Levy, the deputy chief-of-staff, and Uri Saguy, the head of the operations branc…
