Where Rabin appears
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I sensed, at the time, at least the start of some connection. I suspected that Arafat viewed me, as he had Rabin before me, as a “fellow fighter”. But if so, I now wondered whether that might have been part of the problem in his ever truly...
American support is crucial. Rabin said he was elected to take risks for peace. President
Bibi had seized on Oslo I to accuse Rabin
…with the lives of these people, with the life of my daughter.” After Entebbe, there would be suggestions that Rabin’s readiness to negotiate with the terrorists had been a ploy, designed to buy time. Yet his message to us that night was tha...
…or nine o’clock on Friday morning on the sayeret base. When they left, I joined Dan, Motta and Kuti to go see Rabin. Shimon Peres was there too. He would later say that, as Defence Minister, he was a crucial voice in pressing to go ahead wi...
I thought. Rabin knew that the story was untrue. I’d still
and that Rabin and the government could then secure
and Rabin invariably puffing on a cigarette. He never raised questions of
we immediately met with Rabin and agreed on the need to
Rabin is quoted as having defined the elimination of Saddam as a
Rabin and I had talked through the arguments for and
there would be suggestions that Rabin’s readiness to
the one who’d told me of how Rabin was chain-smoking and biting
…ing that the hatred on the far-right would lead to a murder, and Avraham Shochat, Finance Minister under both Rabin and Peres. Both had been in the Knesset since the 1980s. Both were part of two of Peres’s earlier, failed, election campaign...
… demilitarization provisions which reached pretty much to the edge of Damascus. I’d been asked for my view by Rabin when I was chief-of-staff. Obviously, from a purely military standpoint, the ideal situation would be to keep the whole of t...
…, Nava phoned again, almost sputtering in fury. She told me that she’d just received a call from Aliza Goren, Rabin’s media spokesperson. “Does Ehud know about the Yediot story?” she’d asked. When Nava said yes, Aliza told her: “It is impor...
Christine Harper Matthew J. Harrington Phillip J. Harrington Erich Harsch Stephanie Pullings Hart Yasuchika Hasegawa Muhadditha Al Hashimi Joergen Ole Haslestad Anne Hastings Takashi Hatchoji Gary A. Haugen Carl Hausmann Ricardo Hausmann Ju...
…ictures of tens of thousands of people celebrating the results in the central Tel Aviv square, now renamed in Rabin’s memory, where he had been murdered nearly four years earlier. Before leaving to join them, I fielded a stream of calls: fr...
…overnment in the first place was often criticized for the same things. By character, instinct and experience, Rabin, too, remained less a politician than a military man. Yet towards the end of his second period as Prime Minister, he did get...
… secular thrust to the government. When I’d stood in front of the tens of thousands of cheering supporters in Rabin Square after the election, I thought to myself: they think that with Bibi gone, peace is around the corner. I wanted a coali...
