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…aust survivor who participated in the revolt and escape from the Sobibor death camp, died at the age of 97 in Israel. Rosenfeld joined the Red Army in 1940. While he was fighting the Germans, his family was killed by the Nazis. He was captu...
…et of $1.1 billion. Angered by the Palestinians' refusal to - HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033529 restart peace talks with Israel, however, the administration cut its contribution in early 2018 from $364 million to $60 million before ceasing payments al...
…tta’s reply was unequivocal. The mission was off. When we’d climbed through a bramble-filled ravine back into Israel, I left a message for Motta. I found it hard to disguise my frustration, and my anger, at being ordered to abort the attack...
…e administration’s point person on the Middle East, was that he was not nearly tough enough in his defense of Israel. After the election, the Fox News anchor Tucker Carlson with sly jocularity privately pointed out to the president that by...
…erve its ties to the military and its interests in the region, chiefly Egypt’s role in maintaining peace with Israel. But Washington also hopes to win favor with Egypt’s newly empowered political opposition while avoiding the appearance of...
…elieved that what I’d attempted, and achieved, in government would prove to have safeguarded and strengthened Israel, I knew that important challenges and decisions still lay ahead. So did our unfulfilled dream of being a country that was n...
…s and naval fire, the Palestinian death toll was around 150, about one-tenth of what it had been in 2008. Six Israelis, including four civilians, lost their lives. On the 21 st of November, the cease-fire was announced. Yet with the electio...
… bad. Very bad. But we’ll still be here. And we’ll find a way of dealing with the new reality.” Yet “fortress Israel” was irresistibly comfortable for Bibi politically. I now had to accept that, while he and I had known each other for more...
… to paralysis. Of course, there are risks in any action, or any policy initiative. But in the situation where Israel finds itself, the biggest risk of all is being unable or unwilling to take risks, as if we somehow on the brink of destruct...
esented a picture of vulnerability and victimhood: a kind of “fortress Israel” threatened by terror, missiles on its northern and southern borders, and now potential nuclear annihilation from Iran, while our main ally, the United States, wa...
…of many of my colleagues that he was intellectually shallow. I felt he was capable of doing what was best for Israel, and that he had a basic pragmatism that would guide how he got there. All that, however, was just a reason for not saying...
…o your dying day, you won’t be able to look yourself in the mirror and explain why you waited for another 630 Israelis to die first.” He did eventually start building it, but only in the wake of an act of terrorism which, even by the standa...
… a losing option.” I could see that he was right. I also believed, as strongly now as before the summit, that Israel’s own interests and its security were not served by an unresolved conflict with the Palestinians. The problem was that, in...
f since Israel got Netanyahu. What have you done to go after him? Why haven’t you gone on the attack?” He said it was time for me to wake up, and change tack. “Can you run through your stump speech for me,” he asked, motioning me toward the...
… continuing talks with the Syrians. As long as we had partners committed to reaching an agreement, I believed Israel would be ready “to consider major compromise and to take upon ourselves significant calculated risks.” But with a frankness...
sraeli troops in the security zone, something I think even most Israelis were coming to realize was impossible as long as our soldiers remained in Lebanon. But the rocket attacks on northern Israel did stop, with very few exceptions, for a...
…pher, reinforced that message. Our military operation lasted just a week. It did not end Hizbollah attacks on Israeli troops in the security zone, something I think even most Israelis were coming to realize was impossible as long as our sol...
…on which our military vehicles were travelling, followed by an ambush of soldiers who survived the blast. Six Israelis had been killed in all, making it the largest monthly toll in three years. When I went to see Rabin with our plan for a m...
…uited Hizbollah. In late October, a Katyusha rocket had claimed the life of a 14-year-old boy in the northern Israeli town of Kiryat Shmona. Hizbollah escalated its rocket fire in the days that followed, forcing tens of thousands of residen...
… was that he would go on to forge a much closer relationship with President Clinton than between any previous Israeli and US leader. But his first impression was more skeptical. “Clearly, Clinton is very intelligent,” he said. “He is surpri...
