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Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...
/ BARAK / 104 I did regret being unable to rely on the support of two key constituencies that had helped deliver my landslide victory barely 18 months earlier: my own Labor Party and the Arab citizens of Israel. I had no trouble understanding the reasons many Israeli Arabs were...
/ BARAK / 113 ill-fated Israeli war in Lebanon since 1982, was the reason I ultimately found myself back in the Israeli government. It began on July 12, 2006, when Hizbollah fired rockets from southern Lebanon as cover for an ambush of two Israeli Humvees on our side of the bor...
Freedom House to economic mismanagement and political dishones- ty. It was devastated by the 2010 election results, and has failed to reemerge as a viable opposition entity. In Poland, the center-right Civic Platform had been the dominant force until the 2015 PiS victory. It ach...
A decade later, the idea would suddenly resurface. In my first meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He loo...
Unsteady Undertow As market observers attempt to explain the recent drop in US equities, the risks of geopolitical factors have garnered considerable attention. Potential US retaliation over the recent disappearance of a Saudi journalist has only added fuel to the fire of worrie...
Focus on Operating Efficiency: Illustrative Policy Options From the Report of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform Illustrative Policy Options Deficit Reduction in F2015E Eliminate 250,000 non-defense service and staff augmentee contractors $18 billion...
200 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Central Intelligence Agency, the Treasury Department, the Atomic Energy Commission, and the FBI. With a multibillion-dollar “black budget” hidden from public scrutiny, the NSA’s technology director- ate invested in state-of-the-art equipment, i...
That same year, 2011, more girls continued to come forward, including Roberts, who claimed in a British tabloid story that Epstein directed her — while she was underage by Florida standards — to have sex, not only with him, but with other powerful men, including his attorney, Ala...
ceremony with both the Interior Minister and the Prime Minister present. The first was in Ofakim, near where I’d worked in the fields with Yigal Garber in the 1950s. Shortly after we arrived, a group of protestors started shouting at Rabin. Manyac, they yelled, “maniac”. Boged: t...
were still behind schedule. Dawn was 25 minutes away. I radioed the helicopter pilot with a new pickup point, closer to where we’d installed the equipment though still far enough, I hoped, to avoid giving away what we’d done. Still, we barely made it. The sun was rising as the ch...
from the massacre was that the mix of Jewish settlers, some of whom felt they were on a messianic mission to resettle all of Biblical Israel, and restive Palestinians who wanted sovereignty and control over their own lives was potentially toxic, for both sides. Ideally, the proce...
That wasn’ t his only embarrassment: “At the Signal Corps, | accidentally flushed my top secret badge down the toilet. It took a lot of official paperwork and the notation ‘irretrievably lost’ to finally get a new badge. Also, in 1954, the McCarthy paranoia was paramount. |, and...
12 JAM v. INTERNATIONAL FINANCE CORP. BREYER, J., dissenting A The “commercial activity” exception to the sovereign immunity of foreign nations is broad. We have said that a foreign state engages in “commercial activity” when it exercises “‘powers that can also be exercised by...