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…effrey E. [[email protected]] Sent: 4/23/2015 2:38:55 PM To: Ehud Barak Subject: Re: What Iran nuke deal means for Israel: Enud Barak this is your interview not his On Thu, Apr 23, 2015 at 9:34 AM, Ehud Barak <> wrote: Hi Jeff Bill Clinton 1994. Food for thought. EB htt...

…at he desperately wanted to defect along with his family from Communist Romania and move either to the United States or Israel. He swore me to secrecy and asked if I would become his pro-bono lawyer in what would surely be a long-term activity, since his family was being held hos...

… the place that we chose gave me my first experience of how far I was from being a “private citizen” in the eyes of the Israeli public. When it became known we were planning to move to Kfar Shmaryahu near Tel Aviv, one of the wealthiest places in Israel, all hell broke loose. How...

… impossible for me to make: that I felt I had a responsibility to stay at a time when there remained a real possibility Israel might need to take military action against Iran. To a mix of consternation and anger among many Labor colleagues, I ended up taking what seemed to me the...

/ BARAK / 115 Minister, I felt it was not my place to criticize Olmert publicly when Israeli troops were in action. Two days in, in fact, I told a television interviewer that the government had every right to respond and was doing so effectively. Olmert phoned to thank me. When...

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…been in charge of all the initial planning. I was in command of the Sabena assault, the only remotely similar operation Israel had attempted. Though an attempt to rescue dozens of terrified hostages in Entebbe, with both the terrorists and possibly Ugandan soldiers armed and read...

…l of the main missile sites we had identified. The whole operation lasted a week. Hamas fired nearly 1,500 rockets into Israel, not just locally manufactured Qassems but longer-range Iranian Fajr-5s and Russian Grads. For the first time since the 1991 Gulf war, several were targe...

…im leaders that he would be conciliatory once he took office, and that he was not about to consider a formal peace with Israel. He had also been resisting Israeli efforts to make an early, public show of friendship, such as an official visit to meet Prime Minister Begin. But ther...

…ties without hard-headed analysis, even a dose of scepticism. But the opportunities are undeniably there, and never has Israel risked paying a higher price for failing to see and at least to try to act on them. The first port of call should still be the Palestinians. I have repe...

…t they were doing, and what how and when they were planning to advance. As speculation mounted after the war about how Israel seemed to know so much the Arab forces, Meir Amit’s successor as Head of Military Intelligence, Ahrahle Yariv, even engaged in some misdirection. He was...

…m behind and Yoni’s and Uzi’s men in front, the convoy was trapped, and the Syrians captured. The safest way back into Israel would have been the way the force had entered. But Yoni and Uzi realized the main imperative was to get the Syrians out as quickly as possible. At a not-...

… was still a bit groggy from the night before. We had been out at a get-to-know-you event for some of the several dozen Israelis, and several hundred American Jewish students, at Stanford. While I only vaguely recognized the voice on the other end of the line, her words instantly...

Israel saw in France a patron that was not in a

…fman, who was one of the defendants, had allegedly made some crude remarks about how his “Jew lawyers” cared more about Israel than America. I called him out on his comments in a brief note, to which he responded with an angry handwritten two page letter which included the follow...