Where Yitzhak appears
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…rything they might suggest. During my term as Prime Minister, I was much less good at that. But another thing Yitzhak and I shared was a determination to set ourselves specific goals and do everything we could to achieve them. I promised to...
physically from the weeks of tension, Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d said no. But he said he’d always believed he could and should have been chief- of-staff— and that if he hadn’t left to go into politics, he still might have got...
…Peres did get some good news: President Clinton, anxious to preserve the progress he’d worked so closely with Yitzhak to achieve, organized an unprecedented show of international condemnation of the terror attacks. With Egypt’s Hosni Mubara...
… fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it would be seen as a de facto border and undermine the idea of building c...
knew that would be a sensitive task. We spoke only briefly before he and Mookie drove back to the sayeret base to begin more detailed preparations. Yoni was insistent that he should be in charge. I told him I understood, and I did. In his p...
…piece was a memorial service, at which Leah spoke very movingly of the need for both sides to finish the work Yitzhak had begun, a responsibility I pledged that we would do everything in our power to fulfill. Only Arafat struck a discordant...
emotional attachment to our historic capital. “Yitzhak would never have
he remained personally close to Yitzhak.
Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d
…ument. I badly wanted us to win: both for Peres’s sake and the country’s, and to redeem and continue all that Yitzhak had sacrificed. Despite my misgivings about some aspects of the Oslo process, I did believe there was a possibility of ach...
and to redeem and continue all that Yitzhak had sacrificed.
the veteran whom I’d urged Yitzhak to bring back for
things like the unfortunate American redefinition of Yitzhak’s “pocket
…ut my going into politics, despite her lifelong belief that the isswes of politics mattered, especially after Yitzhak had been cut down and killed for following the path on which I hoped to continue. Still, I could hear the pride, and relie...
…iod had yet to begin. In one respect, I had some sympathy for Bibi’s predicament. The reason I'd tried to get Yitzhak to alter the terms of Oslo II was that it required us to hand back control before we knew what a “permanent- status” peace...
…ions but said they looked forward to working with me as I tried to move Israel forward and to finish the work Yitzhak had begun. 317 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011788
…ut my going into politics, despite her lifelong belief that the isswes of politics mattered, especially after Yitzhak had been cut down and killed for following the path on which I hoped to continue. Still, I could hear the pride, and relie...
…unequal to, or uninterested in, making the hard decisions required for peace. That was an approach with, like Yitzhak 305 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011776
…rything they might suggest. During my term as Prime Minister, I was much less good at that. But another thing Yitzhak and I shared was a determination to set ourselves specific goals and do everything we could to achieve them. I promised to...
…’d made to Clinton during the summit: all Israelis had a deep, emotional attachment to our historic capital. “Yitzhak would never have agreed to compromise on the Old City and the Temple Mount,” Leah said, 375 / BARAK / 90 “because for him,...
