Results for “Operation Peace for Galilee”

… we had hoisted ourselves in, we headed out at first by paddle, then under engine power, to the missile boat. The whole operation had taken about a half an hour, only 10 minutes on Rue Verdun. I radioed Manno on the way to the missile boat. A half-dozen words: the agreed code ph...

…nty-first century, the CIA had to establish why its new opposition, the SVR, was laying the foundation for an espionage operation. What were its priorities in the resumption of the intelligence war? Its inside man in the SVR, Poteyev, provided it with a tremendous advantage in th...

…e, at the direction of Golda herself, who was co-ordinating it. Nor that a special Mossad team was at the center of the operation. Yet from news reports of a series of attacks on suspected leaders of Black September, I, and most Israelis, assumed we were determined to convey a me...

…from our real mission, which meant we could return in a few months and have another attempt. After all, the part of the operation that had been causing the most concern in the Airya — our ability to get deep inside Egypt undetected — had succeeded. We were nearly three hours behi...

…rve no jail time. July: After pressure from the Palm Beach police chief, the FBI opens a federal investigation, dubbed "Operation Leap Year." Documents list the possible crime as "child prostitution." November: The FBI begins interviewing potential witnesses and victims from Flor...

to adapt on the ground. And obviously pleased that we’d found a way to make the operation work. The Sinai mission marked a transition not just for me, but for others in Sayeret Matkal as well. Avraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the h...

…irst bomb in Jerusalem, he’d phoned Shimon to offer condolences, telling reporters afterward that this was “a terrorist operation. I condemn it completely. It is not only against civilians, but against the whole peace process.” Yet when it came to action, we saw no sign that he w...

…f the border was real. I did not believe it was inherently wrong for Begin’s government to order a pre-emptive military operation with the aim of ending it. My view, as an army officer, was that the decision on how, when and whether to go to war was for our elected government. Bu...

…th the election approaching, and my time in public life drawing to a close, I had no illusion that this latest military operation, or future ones, would bring us closer to the negotiating peace with the Palestinians that had eluded us since Oslo. Nor was I confident that, having...

…th the election approaching, and my time in public life drawing to a close, I had no illusion that this latest military operation, or future ones, would bring us closer to the negotiating peace with the Palestinians that had eluded us since Oslo. Nor was I confident that, having...

the substance of any real peace — could not simply be put off forever. Untangling them was getting harder, not easier. And we realised that only in an environment like Camp David — a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albri...

reasonable and realistic leaders should have nothing to fear from Egypt, with which it has an enduring peace treaty. The situation with Syria may not be exactly the same, however, especially when the two countries are still officially in a state of war. The regime of Bashar Assa...

…r later reflected, “is a contemporary example of conventional militaries being confronted with a tactical surprise with operational—if not strategic—implications.” 3° Like so much in 35 The American Marine Corps General: Victor Krulak, “A New Kind of War”, in First to Fight: An...

Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed,...

/ BARAK / 126 Palestinians control of most of Hebron, and accepted further withdrawals under the Wye River agreement. But amid predictable protests from the right, he had promptly retreated from his Wye commitments. I knew that his default response to Obama’s call for a settleme...