Where Yitzhak appears
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…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...
ain. But I was now increasingly certain that at some stage its ministers, too, would leave. In the midst of the Sharanksy rebellion, Haim Ramon, who was the minister in charge of liaising with the Knesset, insisted I “punish” him for his po...
consider in peace 327 / BARAK / 42 negotiations. The first stirrings of discontent had begun even before I went to see Clinton. On the basis of my commitment merely to try for peace, Arik Sharon had presented a no-confidence motion in the K...
… the same vein when President Clinton urged me to help kickstart new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card – our...
… the same vein when President Clinton urged me to help kickstart new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card – our...
final peace deals might require. In the end, I realized that we might simply discover that Assad, and certainly Arafat, were not willing or ready to make peace. We might, initially at least, have to settle for a more incremental step. “Righ...
…teral “surprises” – by which I meant, though didn’t say, things like the unfortunate American redefinition of Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” assurance regarding the Golan. The second assumption, I know, may seem overly legalistic. It was that,...
s, of Middle East peace. Still, chemistry does help when moments of tension or crisis arise, as they inevitably do. My first few days with President Clinton laid a foundation that allowed us to work together even when things got tough. I be...
rying to make peace with Syria. That made my first visit to see President Clinton as Prime Minister especially important. * * * It was billed as a “working visit” and work we did. After a gala dinner for Nava and me in the White House, we h...
ould best move toward a full peace agreement. I said I was convinced the prospects would be much better if we delayed the redeployments and brought forward the start of the real negotiations: on “permanent-status” issues like final borders,...
abide by that. I do remember a particularly poignant moment from one of our sessions. Peres had left the room for a minute, and Sonia came in. “Ehud,” she said to me, “keep your nerve. You’re the only one who can talk to him this way. He sh...
spect of being part of an effort to 296 / BARAK / 11 force Shimon out. But Jean said he’d been giving a lot of thought to everything that had happened since Rabin was killed. He felt I was the only potential Labor leader who could defeat Bi...
… the agenda, at least for now. In early August, I was standing next to Giora Einy – the “political operative” Yitzhak had sent to help bring me into his government, and a friend of Peres as well – when Shimon rose to speak to the dozens of...
… down in Tel Aviv’s main square, by a fellow Israeli riding a tide of hatred so blinkered that it could paint Yitzhak – who had worked all his life to create, defend and help develop the Jewish state – as a traitor, even a Nazi. All because...
…that Rabin and I spoke alone, over a beer in his office. He didn’t raise the question of the vote. So I did. “Yitzhak, I understand it’s caused you pain,” I said. “But I think you understand I was acting out of what is genuinely my belief a...
… corner. The cabinet vote wasn’t happening in a political vacuum. Likud’s defeat in 1992 had meant the end of Yitzhak Shamir’s leadership. The new Likud leader was the former Sayeret Matkal officer with whom I’d shared a newspaper cover in...
Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d
…d made to Clinton during the summit: a@// 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 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011846
…ons, I’d be either in the kirva or a forward command post. Since nearly all of them happened after nightfall, Yitzhak would usually be back home, asleep, by the time they ended. I would phone him. The trademark voice — slow, gravelly, deep...
Yitzhak’s murder had acted like a kind lightning strike, freezing Israelis in a mix of disgust over what had occurred and awareness of the dangers this brand of hatred and extremism posed. I was concerned the moment would be allowed to pass...
