and four years later the United Nations envoy
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was Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Ideologically
as if to say none of it mattered. His successor
exhausted by the war and its aftermath. He waved his hand
but when decisions are made.” Yet he was now only months from
Saguy had faced an additional problem. He was
tried to prove it. I also wanted to be challenged on my
through a competing analysis of the data
I already knew 80 percent of what I could about what
Israel had a new Defense Minister: Moshe Arens
to ensure the mix of forces and weaponry deployed in any
Begin himself would quit as Prime Minister
killing a young Peace Now member. Even Arik was
a right-wing political activist tossed a
and Begin refused to fire him. Yet in the end
no proper heed was taken. The correct conclusions
but national unity. This war was different. It had been
attacked and broken enemy resistance. That hadn’t happened here.
once the surprise attacks had been turned back
the pattern of past wars had been broken.