Where Rabin appears
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RAK / 32 At the start of my brief remarks at the hotel podium before going to Rabin Square, I had to call for quiet when I mentioned the phone call from Bibi. “No,” I said, raising my voice to be heard above the boos, “we will not boo an in...
…eady begun when he arrived. He had spent nearly as long as I had in the army, but he was shaken. Interrupting Rabin, he banged his fist on the table. “I’ve been on battlefields,” he said. “I’ve been shot at. I know how to read a situation....
… anyone overhearing me had no idea what we were talking about. “I need you to come back as soon as possible,” Rabin said. I already knew, from Giora, that he was anxious to find a long-term replacement as Minister of Interior. The leading l...
…h film clips from my years in the army, and a series of entertaining cameos from men I’d served with and led. Rabin spoke at the end. He said he’d recently been on an official visit to South Korea. He’d met the president, who told him he wa...
…, 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...
…x months after I’d left the army and only days before I was expected to named as Interior Minister in Yitzhak Rabin’s government. The effect, and clearly the intention, was to threaten my political career before it had even begun – by reviv...
…ing stage in the Oslo process barely a year later. By then, I was no longer chief of staff. I was a member of Rabin’s cabinet. 262 * * * It was still my responsibility to ensure that Gaza-Jericho was implemented, and that the initial withdr...
…the Gaza- Jericho plan. The ministers seemed attentive as I ran through the security concerns I’d raised with Rabin, even nodding when I compared the agreement’s security provisions to “a piece of Swiss cheese, only with more holes.” But th...
…he formal agreement. But I had a deeper concern about the entire Oslo Agreement, which I also now raised with Rabin. I did not doubt the importance of reaching a political agreement, and ideally a peace treaty, with the Palestinians. But I’...
… it, though I remained far from confident that anything resembling full peace would come any time soon. * * * Rabin, and even more acutely Shimon Peres, believed it was important to press ahead with the opening phase of the handover of Isra...
es around the Cave of the Patriarchs that day had contributed to what happened. In addition to the fact that the guard unit was not at full strength until after the murders took place, several of the security cameras weren’t working. I ackn...
hese old enemies had grasped hands, surely a full peace agreement was within reach. My feeling, as I watched it on TV in the kirya, was more guarded. I did hope for peace, of course. I also recognized that the signing on the White House law...
…ged things anyway, since by this stage, the Oslo talks had almost completed a draft agreement. In mid-August, Rabin gave Peres the go-ahead to initial this “Declaration of Principles.” It provided for a period of interim Palestinian self-go...
… accounts of the Christopher-Assad talks, however, suggested it had been presented as a straight message from Rabin to the Syrian president, giving it the status of Israel’s new, formal opening position in negotiations. The distinction may...
uch liked, Shimon. In fact, though Peres’s support inside Labor had secured him the foreign ministry, Rabin had stipulated that all peace talks would remain under his control. Yet as I’d discover nearly a decade later, when I was Prime Mini...
…two years. The intifada, however, had not stopped. Nor, as I knew from my increasingly frequent meetings with Rabin, had the search for a way both to control the violence, and seek out any realistic prospect of a political path to resolving...
…for us to do both, without anyone asking too many questions. The Mossad men took the lead in arranging to get Rabin’s questions answered. They contacted a pilot they knew. The pilot flew to Entebbe early on Saturday morning, circled, and, a...
… re-assigned to accompany a Mossad team to Kenya. Our first task would be to get the answers to the questions Rabin had asked us. Then, we would be in charge of arranging for the Kenyans to allow us to refuel the C-130s on the way out, and...
…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...
…d.” Pounding the table again, he shouted: “I warn you. It will end with a murder! It will end with a murder!” Rabin motioned for calm. He, too, was concerned by the rhetorical violence, even more so now that it was becoming physical violenc...
