or Independence. We remained in Bibi’s government.
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was giving Bibi political cover for abandoning any serious
I was under increasing pressure from within Labor to pull out of Bibi’s
I found myself in New York at the same time as
in the expectation Washington would ensure the freeze was
deliberately passive. Obviously not inclined to take the risk of further
the negotiations produced even less. I didn’t
it was also dismissed as insignificant by the
as a way of boosting the effort to restart
my de facto role became to help smooth over the increasingly
my support for them was politically convenient. To the extent the
it would be a benefit not just for the Palestinians
as long as there no security reason to say no. We ended up
with the aim of pushing back the point at which they
to get to work on a plan to attack the most important facilities in the
I formally directed the new chief-of-staff
his instincts and his undeniably powerful political
that was not an easy argument to make to
led by a former Likudnik named Avigdor Lieberman. Tzipi’s attempt to
especially with lives at stake. But it was