brokered a cease-fire to halt Palestinian Katyusha rocket fire into Israel. It was generally holding. But fundamentally, Arik’s war plan was not a response to the Katyushas. It was a way of using military force to achieve Prime Minister Begin’s political aim: stopping the Camp D...
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This book is only in part the story of my life — a life that, from my beginnings as a kibbutz boy in pre-state Palestine, has been intimately entwined with the infancy and adolescence and, now, the increasingly troubled middle age of the State of Israel. Still less is it only a...
/ BARAK / 109 Chapter Twenty-Four I had only a general idea of what I would do next. “Something in business” describes it best. But I sought the advice of a friend who, rather than leaving politics, had just entered it. Colin Powell was now the second President Bush’s Secretary...
/ 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...
Chapter Thirteen It was a huge responsibility, and not just because I was suddenly in charge of an intelligence apparatus ranging from Unit 8200, our sophisticated signals collection and decryption unit, to the operational units like Sayeret Matkal. It was what was at stake if t...
/ BARAK / 106 there’s no doubt you’ ll decide to build this fence. But to your dying day, you won’t be able to look yourself in the mirror and explain why you waited for another 630 Israelis to die first.” He did eventually start building it, but only in the wake of an act of t...
“rotation” with Yitzhak Shamir, so that he could be in the government. He proposed the ideal of “national unity,” and greatly devalued the democratic concept of parliamentary opposition. Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ruined her reputation when she refused to join Netanyahu...
/ BARAK / 142 US. No matter how we might explain our attack, with the joint exercises soon to begin, it would come over as a deliberate attempt to implicate our most important ally in a potential conflict with Iran, against the explicit wishes of President Obama. I felt this eve...
Dershowitz details chat about Israel with president at his estate - The Bo... https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/04/06/dershowitz-detai... 2 of 8 In this instance, Dershowitz was a guest of Trump’s buddy and Mar-a-Lago member Chris Ruddy, the CEO of the conservative...
part because of Bruria Shaked, his girlfriend, whom he’d met while commanding the tank unit after 1973. While he was a thinker and a brooder and in many ways a loner, Bruria was outgoing, playful, funny and full of life. She sensed his need for a shoulder to lean on, a hand to ho...
/ BARAK / 119 receiving money from Talansky. But he insisted it was all a part of election campaign contributions. Publicly, I reserved judgement. “I hope, for everyone’s sake, and for Prime Minister Olmert’s sake, that the suspicions now circulating turn out to be baseless,” I...
/ BARAK / 116 the beginning summed up the feeling of most of the country at the end: “If you don’t win, you lose... Hizbollah survived. It won the war.” Without the botched handling of the war, I might well have remained a mere member of the Labor Party and a private citizen. B...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 constitutional law weren’t sound enough, and subsequently became one of the most distinguished law professors at Yale, advised me against going to Harvard: “You won’t fit in there,” he warned me. When I recounted this story to my Harvard colleague of 50 years,...
Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed,...
Presidential News Bulleti 24 August, 2011 Arce’ The Daily Beast Obama’s True Claim to Fame Michael Tomasky Article 2. | Stratfor Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching George Friedman AnicleS-’ The Financial Times Why Assad need not fear Gaddafi’s fate Ed Husain ancl’ 4.) The Chr...