Results for “Israeli Knesset”

/ BARAK / 120 capable to taking over Gaza. But what then, I asked. Unless we were prepared to resume open-ended Israeli control, we’d be left with no one to run Gaza afterwards. The obvious candidate, Egypt, was even less interested than we were in assuming responsibility for th...

… the kirva. Both Dan Meridor and Benny Begin, Menachem Begin’s son and a minister without portfolio, were opposed to an Israeli attack from the start. They were convinced that the implications for the region, and for our relations with the wider world, were difficult to predict a...

linger there. There's abundant reason for skepticism. The project's future depends on the Israeli authorities’ willingness to allow for the construction of access roads in "Area C," or West Bank territory under the direct control of Israel. The sole existing route into the city o...

…taff and helicoptered up to the Lebanese capital. Arik, ignoring weeks of US pressure not to do so, had already ordered Israeli troops into west Beirut — not to fight, but to take control of key junctions and vantage points and keep basic order. But the question obviously on eve...

/ BARAK / 120 capable to taking over Gaza. But what then, I asked. Unless we were prepared to resume open-ended Israeli control, we’d be left with no one to run Gaza afterwards. The obvious candidate, Egypt, was even less interested than we were in assuming responsibility for th...

…at unless the PLO felt squeezed into submission, they would stay put. On that, I thought Ank was probably right. Other Israeli generals with far more experience, and weight, also seemed to agree. Notably, Yitzhak Rabin. He was no longer in government, nor even in charge of Labor...

… and even more acutely Shimon Peres, believed it was important to press ahead with the opening phase of the handover of Israeli authority mapped out by Oslo. In May 1994, a draft of the so-called “Gaza and Jericho First” agreement was completed. Once it was ratified, the five-yea...

… thing in Las Vegas? I mean, it was all about money anyway — how much Romney would abase himself by saying whatever the Israeli right wanted to hear and how big a jackpot of donations Adelson would shower on the Romney campaign in return. Really, Vegas would have been so much mor...

Israelis and Palestinians, particularly Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But hey, that was then. A second-term president has committed himself early in 2013 to a trip to Israel and has an Energizer bunny in Secretary of State John Kerry, who wants to do the right thing...

…ssed as a maintenance crew; or that, in leading an assassination raid in Beirut against the PLO group that had murdered Israeli athletes at the 1972 Munich Olympics, I was disguised as a woman. Not the most attractive young lady, perhaps, though I did, painfully, pluck my eyelash...

…livered to me six months earlier: plans were well underway by cells in the West Bank and Gaza for armed attacks against Israeli soldiers and terror strikes inside Israel. “It’s like two families living in the same house, and it’s on fire,” I said. “AIl of us are rushing to put it...

…ished police had entered the fray. By the time urgent US diplomacy, our efforts and Arafat’s, brought it to a close, 25 Israeli soldiers and nearly 100 Palestinians had been killed. He did not slam the brakes altogether on the American-led efforts to move ahead with the Oslo. In...

… from Unit 101 and Company A, we had been steeped in the spirit of commandos. Our training was the most rigorous in the Israeli armed forces, involving not just a punishing endurance régime but learning to assemble and disassemble, fire and detonate, everything from handguns to m...

…wrong. But the story had been allowed to stand for too long. His rebuttal caused barely a ripple. As I read the latest Israeli newspapers before landing in Tel Aviv, I found that at least I wasn’t totally on my own. Reporters had been phoning politicians for comment. Most respon...

…furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first, bold move toward a p...