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Shamir opened up in a way I’d never seen: about his

I boarded a private jet to London along with

and now arranged for us to meet him at a country residence

it was against our inrerests as well. Yet with

we would stay out of it. To do otherwise was clearly not

war was virtually certain. Misha and I had been to

from a former chief of staff who was now Shamir’s

it was ratified by the government. There

we want you to replace him as chief-of-staff.” Briefly and unusually

I was dealing both with plans for distributing the gas

we might actually raise the probability of a chemical attack. We

he tried to divert attention from US-led

in order to avoid killing or injuring demonstrators; or

we’d be left with two equally bad options:

we said there was no need. But on his return

or even bottles. In one incident in Gaza

and blocked streets with burning tires. By the

that the crash had been deliberate – retaliation for

” I said. The first was a formal decision that

Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d