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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

000 rockets into Israel in the year before our attack

the operation was a success. While Hamas

the better it will be for Hamas. They gain simply by surviving

our ground forces had so far faced virtually no resistance or casualties.

responding to inevitable international appeals