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odle’. And he deeply distrusted Arafat. The PLO had been founded with the aim of “liberating” every inch of Palestine. The fact that Arafat had agreed to the Bush Administration’s demand to accept the principle of land-for-peace struck Rabi...
…at’s closest economic aide, Abu Ala’a. Though both of the Israelis were friends of Yossi Beilin, a protégé of Peres and our deputy foreign minister, even Peres didn’t know about the meeting until Yossi told him the following day. Rabin knew...
…und the flag and support our government in these critical times.” This position, widely espoused, echoes what Peres has said repeatedly over the years. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_029708
…al peace with the Palestinians unless we could stop at least most of the terror attacks before they happened. Peres, too, had been worried about “undermining coexistence.” But now, he and the rest of the cabinet were so shaken by the carnag...
…right now as Netanyahu struggles to put together a government, let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from 1974 to 1977. Today Peres is widely respected...
…ich the peace process had begun, held on the fourth anniversary of Rabin’s assassination. Both Leah Rabin and Peres came with me. Its centerpiece was a memorial service, at which Leah spoke very movingly of the need for both sides to finish...
I’d learned of cases where Peres volunteers outside polling
I joined other ministers and party officials with Peres
not to try to score political points –Peres’s reelection campaign seemed
1996. Yet that would turn out not to be the end of Peres’s
Peres called us into a small room in the
of the Golan. Peres now focused on clarifying
sometimes also including Peres. Almost everyone around the table was
…ssibly mine, in leading our opposition to Bibi and bringing a Labor government back to power. The question of Peres’s leadership was unavoidable. Labor’s constitution mandated a vote for party chairman within 14 months of an election defeat...
…re the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even have a role. A few days later, Peres and I met again. In Israeli elections, the campaign manager is called head of hasbarah — media and public-information planni...
Peres turned to him and said: “Look what Barak is
Peres had a record of repeated electoral defeat as head
Peres did get some good news: President Clinton
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e phoned a couple of hours later, it was not the most astute thing to say as a potential candidate for Prime Minister. None of this might have mattered if I’d been able to show I was bringing Labor nearer to defeating Bibi. But the only mea...
