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weaponry and intelligence — Defense Minister Ehud Barak told CNN on Monday, “I should tell you honestly that this administration under President Obama is doing in regard to our security more than anything that I can remember in the past.” While Romney had time for a $50,000-a-pl...

…l. But I also found myself working more closely with leading politicians: mainly Shamir and Misha Arens, who as defense minister was my main point of contact. Since I was a Labor kibbutznik, we made an odd threesome. Arens was also a lifelong Jabotinsky Zionist. He had been in th...

…aracters playing early in the space...” That evening, there is a small cocktail party, which includes the former Prime Minister of Australian, Kevin Rudd, and Thorbjern Jaglandthe head of the Noble Peace Prize Committee, who offers an affable, but general scathing, critique of U...

…cabinet. He did, briefly, consider giving up the Defense Ministry and putting me there. But instead, he made me Foreign Minister. Like Rabin before him, Shimon stipulated that he, as Prime Minister, would retain authority over the peace negotiations. Still, with his agreement, I...

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…next April, we want you to replace him as chief-of-staff.” Briefly and unusually tongue-tied, I said: “Thank you, Prime Minister’. The news was made public the next morning. A few days later, it was ratified by the government. There was only one vote against, from a former chief...

…rade War The presidentʼs tough rhetoric plays into Chinese economic nationalism. By Kevin Rudd Mr. Rudd, a former prime minister of Australia, is the president of the Asia Society Policy Institute. May 29, 2019 When President Trump tweeted on May 5 that the China trade deal was o...

…ignite an explosion on this side of the border as well. Like a broken watch that shows correct time twice a day, Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan as well occasionally makes some correct analysis. Last week, while comparing the uprising in Libya against the Moammar Gadhafi reg...

…tion may not always bring happiness, but there is no happiness without action. —BENJAMIN DISRAELI, former British Prime Minister To door not to do? To try or not to try? Most people will vote no, whether they consider themselves brave or not. Uncertainty and the prospect of failu...

…on of a development fund run by the Malaysian government. The Malaysian probe has examined the role of the former prime minister in the embezzlement of billions of dollars from the fund. HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031764 A Justice Department spokeswoman declined to comment. Christopher Clar...

…erate with secular parties and show respect for pluralism. Instead, it is sending muddled messages. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali made a conciliatory gesture by proposing a temporary nonpolitical cabinet and new elections. Unfortunately, hard-line party members quick...

…e inquiry suggested, Yehoshua Saguy did try to warn the generals, and the government, about major risks. But individual ministers testified that they hadn’t heard, hadn’t been there, or hadn’t understood, leading the inquiry to stress the responsibility of a Rosh Aman to ensure n...

…e he was poisoned by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. By the time Shimon Peres, the Nobel Prize-winning prime minister of Israel who helped resolve many of the more intangible issues, died more peacefully aged 93 in 2016, he had become one of the most accomplished state...

…E GLOBAL ORDER: THE SIGNIFICANCE OF CHINA’S 2018 CENTRAL FOREIGN POLICY WORK CONFERENCE THE HON. KEVIN RUDD 26 TH PRIME MINISTER OF AUSTRALIA PRESIDENT OF THE ASIA SOCIETY POLICY INSTITUTE, NEW YORK AN ADDRESS TO THE LEE KUAN YEW SCHOOL OF PUBLIC POLICY NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SIN...

…I duly asked for the views of Avi Dichter of the Shin Bet, and Shlomo Ben-Ami, who in addition to being interim Foreign Minister was Minister of Internal Security, in charge of the police. Both came back with the same answer: though we’d all be happier if Arik stayed down on his...