Results for “Palestinians”

…aying a higher price for failing to see and at least to try to act on them. The first port of call should still be the Palestinians. I have repeatedly asked Bibi, and the right-wing rivals that seem often to loom large in his political calculations: “If you’re so sure you don’t...

…prospect of an Israeli settler, a reserve soldier, walking into a place of worship and deliberately killing defenseless Palestinians had come as “a bolt from the blue.” The commission’s report did not apportion blame to any of the army officers or commanders. But an inescapable...

… were going to avoid that if at all possible, and we did. Though there were inevitable civilian casualties, most of the Palestinians killed were Hamas fighters and leaders, including not just Jabari but the head of Hamas’s rocket program. By limiting ourselves to air strikes and...

…n Kiryat Arba and, for the first time, were given the authority to use administrative detention orders not just against Palestinians, but specific Jewish settlers. We arrested about a half-dozen leaders of Kach, the far-right, anti-Arab political movement founded by the American...

…Dayan’s honor at a memorial event a few months before becoming chief of staff. “We are currently in a struggle with the Palestinians — a long, bitter and continuing struggle,” I said. “A people cannot choose its neighbors. But we will have to talk to the Palestinians about matter...

…er. I didn’t miss the political limelight. But by mid-2004, with the first sign of a major change in policy toward the Palestinians, I felt I had a contribution to make. What first prompted me to dip my toes back into politics were the ever more obvious signs throughout 2004 tha...

… were going to avoid that if at all possible, and we did. Though there were inevitable civilian casualties, most of the Palestinians killed were Hamas fighters and leaders, including not just Jabari but the head of Hamas’s rocket program. By limiting ourselves to air strikes and...

Netanyahu originally planned to come to Washington with a generous peace proposal to entice the Palestinians back to the negotiating table. But Obama painted him into a corner and made him change his script by notifying him, as he was about to board his plane, that the President...

… called Abu Ghraib? Or the hundreds of thousands killed by America in Iraq? Or Israel’s massacre in Gaza? Or the 10,000 Palestinians in Israeli jails? If the U.S. and Israel can get away with large-scale killing and torture, why can’t we? They claim to act in self-defence, so do...

/ BARAK / 144 was off the agenda. The diplomatic process with the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. Du...

…ccupation of the West Bank, was still speaking about a “Jordanian option” for an eventual political settlement with the Palestinians who lived there — though this meant a kind of confederation with Jordan under Hussein’s rule. Very few Israelis began seriously to engage with the...

… binational state very realistic, he conceded the point, before noting that in the age of Netanyahu and Lieberman, most Palestinians don’t consider a two-state solution very realistic either. After a while, it hit me: This is what Israelis and American Jews have been demanding al...

… Books of an article called “Israel: The Alternative.” It posited the creation of a single binational state of Jews and Palestinians and suggested a Jewish state was anachronistic. The calls to his office began — “Tell Tony Judt this is Hitler calling and he says, “Congratulatio...

…thing around us, for instance, that we couldn’t “risk” taking the initiative required to disentangle ourselves from the Palestinians on the West Bank. “I don’t get you,” I said, turning to Lieberman as well. “Your rhetoric suggests you have spines of steel. But your behavior is l...

…, named for the bus route between the southern port city of Ashdod and Tel Aviv. On the evening of April 12, 1984, four Palestinians from Gaza boarded the bus and hijacked it back toward the border with Egypt. They told the passengers they were armed with knives, and that a suitc...