I’d long believed Israel had lost sight of the original
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I saw no reason not to give it back. As I’d told
I also felt we should try to hold on to a pair
including their right to establish their own state.” Begin’s
but who had led Israel in 1967 and 1973. Golda was there.
I thanked him for taking the time to see me. But I told him his
and lead the first mission. With as straight a face as I
and to go out in glory. My visitor not only suggested that
all that remained was a formal passage through the turnstile
and the study of ancient civilizations. Fresh from a
Israel’s Negev reconnaissance and tracking unit. He
he couldn’t be sure that a jewel of an idea wasn’t
much less sit down with the self-styled inventors or sages who
as was the name which Motta gave it: Mishugas. The Yiddish
he did seem to enjoy having me around. He even put me in
he tended to keep a formal distance from all but his
I’d risen through Sayeret Matkal. I knew the
I was often the one with the most thorough command of the details.
and outranked me by some distance. Yet with my intelligence
sometimes also including Peres. Almost everyone around the table was