…istian, Shi’ite Muslim, Druse and ethnically mixed — with the aim of reflecting the balance in each part of the south. Israeli troops might still have to cross into Lebanon, but only for brief, targeted operations to preempt preparations for a terror attack. “We need to remember...
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…the insistence on transporting basic aid — food and cement — when it is no longer needed. Still others note the way the Israeli authorities portray the organizers as violent Islamists when most are middle-aged European pacifists. Almost everything about the flotilla stuck in Gre...
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…say to the “single child.” His aides sniggered, but Peres didn’t bat an eyelid: “Just what my mentor, David Ben-Gurion (Israel’s first Prime Minister) told me: when the security of Israel is laid on one side of the scales, and everything else on the other side, security tips the...
…ident Obama on this. While Bibi liked to portray him variously as weak, naive or tone-deaf to interests and security of Israel, I knew from our previous meetings that he was none of these things. Yet I did, ina deliberately non-didactic way, raise the issue of our different persp...
/ BARAK / 69 municipal functions and daily life would be divided between Israel and the Palestinians under a peace agreement. When I convened our negotiators in my cabin to take stock of the logjam, I was getting more and more skeptical of finding a way to get to actual negotia...
…Jerusalem would be key. And if the summit failed, for whatever reason, what inevitably awaited us was “confrontation.” Israel Hasson, the Shin Bet veteran, spoke first. He saw two choices. Either we could retain Isrsaeli sovereignty over a “united Jerusalem” with functional, day...
…be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Israelis were being left to wonder where the next terrorist would strike. He would surely ramp up the accusations that Peres was “weak on security,” especially...
OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi The Crooked Course Xxxi government. In the following days, I flew to Israel to convey the request to Yossi Beilin, then Deputy Foreign Minister. Shortly afterwards, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres dispatched the Director General of the...
OUP CORRECTED PROOF - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi Pa 7 * Nazareth “sJ - GENEVA ACCORDS ¢ (2003) - a [ Palestine Israel y 4 2003 Geneva Accord line q eee 1967 line, where it differs from the Geneva Accord line - Designated road for Israeli civilians NETS > ® r Israeli early warning st...
iron logic, that "the future of Israel depends on our strength and our righteousness." "Our strength" — that is the IDF's might and its strategic capabilities, the backing of the superpowers, our economic strength, and our social solidarity. "Our righteousness" — not as an abst...
…ushner, the administration’s point person on the Middle East, was that he was not nearly tough enough in his defense of Israel. After the election, the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson with sly jocularity privately pointed out to the president that by offhandedly giving the Israel...
…s. But Motta’s reply was unequivocal. The mission was off. When we’d climbed through a bramble-filled ravine back into Israel, I left a message for Motta. I found it hard to disguise my frustration, and my anger, at being ordered to abort the attack, especially after my assuranc...
…embly is imperative. Although not legally binding, this resolution did grant legitimacy to the creation of the State of Israel. Ironically, since that resolution, there was no serious discussion concerning the establishment of two states in Palestine until the 1991 Madrid Confere...