Where Peres appears
33 total
…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...
…l on a UN compound near the Lebanese village of Qana, killing more than 100 civilians seeking shelter inside. Peres phoned me a few hours later, distraught not just because the wayward artillery strike had laid us open to charges of “target...
…In the meantime, though Bibi might be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Israelis were being left to wonder where the next terrorist would strike. He would su...
…ery issues we’d talked about on Air Force One. * * * Though the summit restored a small opinion poll lead for Peres, that merely reinforced Haim Ramon’s soccer-game strategy. I was more convinced than ever it was wrong. Haim still wanted to...
…lks in 1994. But the Sharm conference provided my first opportunity to spend time with him face-to-face. When Peres and our delegation were about to leave, a Clinton aide approached and said the President had asked whether I’d like to join...
…r withdrawal from the Golan Heights, we weren’t going to get to the next stage. So a decision had to be made. Peres, no less than Rabin, knew what the trade-off would be. Israel needed a series of ironclad security arrangements, and a genui...
…t’s still going to move another step toward your ankle.” For Assad, the ankle was the Golan. I understood why Peres wanted to make a new effort to get peace with Syria. Obviously, it was something to be desired in itself. It would transform...
… fact that it was neither polemic nor overtly hostile towards Israel. When I returned to Israel, I found that Peres, too, wanted to restart the negotiating process with the Syrians. The effort took on fresh momentum after a meeting at Peres...
… you come into politics, together with us, and be a member of the government.” He said he’d discussed it with Peres. “It’s a joint invitation.” Though I did, of course, say yes, I also told him I was planning to take some time off, probably...
…ization in Samaria, the northern part of the West Bank. The previous year, as a young reporter, I interviewed Peres, after he and his political ally Moshe Dayan had refused “on principle” to join the government of Golda Merr. “If a single c...
in 2000 (or Rabin and Peres in 1994 or Olmert in 2008)
saw that he was putting Israel’s security at risk. On Sunday evening, Peres called a cabinet meeting in the kirya. He said our task was to continue what Rabin had begun, and that at least for now he would fill Rabin’s shoes not just as Prim...
…he fanaticism, the violent messianism, of which Yigal Amir was just a part. That was the main reason I wanted Peres to call an early election, an issue that would be discussed, off and on, over the next few months. I felt the time was right...
