Results for “United States Military”

/ BARAK / 130 up in our inner Group of Eight discussions, I could usually count only on Dan Meridor, and occasionally a handful of others, to argue in favor of any form of initiative on our side. In private meetings, Bibi did sometimes engage in discussion about what Israel migh...

crowded. I heard the first rumors from a staff officer in military intelligence, though neither he nor anyone else I asked was sure if they were true. But it seemed that the Phalangists had been sent into Sabra and Shatila. And that they had begun killing people. I'd like to thi...

218 Snowden to come to Russia. Putin’s s decision no doubt set in motion the operation to exfiltrate him on Aeroflot, the state-controlled airline. We know that the Russian government acted in advance to facilitate Snowden’s trip from Hong Kong. Without such an intervention, it...

/ BARAK / 134 Yet the delay in getting to that point had serious implications for my role as Labor Party leader. Since the negotiations with the Palestinians were stuck in neutral, I was under increasing pressure from within Labor to pull out of Bibi’s government. What on earth...

/ BARAK / 114 Labor leadership contest. “Shalom, Ehud,” he said when I answered the phone and, without small talk or preliminaries, asked me: “What do you think we should do?” I said I couldn’t offer specific suggestions. “It’s a detail-related question, and I don’t know the de...

Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of...

shifted the debate from the Wall to the military. ""This bill

they point out that it has very limited military power

and that’s why we got this huge military build-up. It started actually under Carter but we

which is keen to preserve its ties to the military and its interests in the region

which assumed power after President Hosni Mubarak’s ouster. The military had initially pledged to hand over control to civilians by September

and Mrs. Clinton’s comment last month approving of the military’s extended timetable for electing a civilian president

reports surfaced of attacks by armed tribesmen on three military outposts near the Iraqi border.

the Assad clan still controls enough military and financial assets to continue its rule-by-massacre strategy.

Galante led a contractor team analyzing cyber capability development and military doctrine at the US Department of Defense.