Every indexed document

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

a city sacred not only to Jews but Muslims as well as the burial place of

we faced our first major test on the ground. In a pre-

a few of whom remain friends to this day. But in

I visited many of the settlements during the early weeks in my new post

leaving two Palestinian mayors crippled for life. The