Results for “Israel Policy Forum”

… that this would be no bad thing. Yet by the summer of 1984, Shamir and Arens appeared in danger of losing their jobs. Israel’s next election, the first since the Lebanon war, was due in July. Just as the trauma of the 1973 war had helped Begin end Likud’s three decades in oppos...

…he army, from the rank of lieutenant-colonel up. I said we needed to remind ourselves of the army’s purpose: to protect Israel’s security and, if a war came, to win it. My budgetary rule of thumb over the next four years would be simple: anything that didn’t directly contribute t...

…lmost surreal. The Americans had obviously been told that I was born on February 12. Since it was just past midnight in Israel, they began by wishing me a happy 49" birthday. Yet pleasing thought that was, it became clear there was a disconnect between the tension among Israeli...

…Lod. It was built by the British in the Second World War for the RAF. After 1948, the main part had been converted into Israel’s officer- training school. But at the far end, set back from a criss-cross of runways, was a pair of domed concrete shelters which had been used by the...

linger there. There's abundant reason for skepticism. The project's future depends on the Israeli authorities’ willingness to allow for the construction of access roads in "Area C," or West Bank territory under the direct control of Israel. The sole existing route into the city o...

…, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even have a role. A few days later, Peres and I met again. In Israeli elections, the campaign manager is called...

…air strikes and naval fire, the Palestinian death toll was around 150, about one-tenth of what it had been in 2008. Six Israelis, including four civilians, lost their lives. On the 21* of November, the cease-fire was announced. Yet with the election approaching, and my time in p...

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… and discouraged its allies. Iran is supporting militias in Iraq, Syria and Yemen whose stated purpose is to eradicate Israel. That threat may create what has been a previously unthinkable alliance between our Gulf Cooperating Council partners and Israel. It’s in the interest of...

…uld take any and all possible measures to prevent Syria from getting a nuclear weapon. An immutable, core assumption in Israel’s security strategy was the need to retain our ability to deter, and if necessary defeat, our enemies. A nuclear Syria — or Iraq, or Iran — would dramati...

…air strikes and naval fire, the Palestinian death toll was around 150, about one-tenth of what it had been in 2008. Six Israelis, including four civilians, lost their lives. On the 21* of November, the cease-fire was announced. Yet with the election approaching, and my time in p...

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…is far and away the most succinct and thoughtful explanation of how our nation is changing. The article appeared in The Israel National News, and is directed to Jewish readership. 70% of American Jews vote as Democrats. The Rabbi has some interesting comments in that regard. HOUS...

…allowed to continue after we knew what was going on, beyond the cost in innocent lives, made the fallout even worse. In Israel, the response was unlike anything in the past. There had been some opposition to the war: from parts of Labor, from political groups further to the left...