/ 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 Knesset. It was never going to pass. But only days after I’d m...
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/ BARAK / 28 The next key moment in the campaign involved something I did not do. This time, the Israeli television debate came earlier in the campaign, a month before the election. Bibi, Yitzhik Mordechai and I were all invited, as the three main candidates. But I told the TV p...
/ BARAK / 4 reason, that was absurd. Near the end of the campaign, there was going be a head- to-head television debate. In the meantime, though Bibi might be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Isr...
/ BARAK / 3 I’d met President Clinton briefly once before, when he received Syrian chief-of- staff Hikmat Shehabi and me after our Blair House talks in 1994. But the Sharm conference provided my first opportunity to spend time with him face-to-face. When Peres and our delegation...
With negotiations frozen, the Palestinians turned to unilateral measures: seeking a United Nations vote admitting the State of Palestine to membership and getting dozens of countries to recognize a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, their delegitimization campaign against Israel conti...
From: Mitchell Bard on behalf of Mitchell Bard Sent: 6/10/2019 12:46:19 PM To: [email protected] Subject: AICE Update: Is UNRWA vital for the Palestinians' future? HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033528 Is UNRWA vital for the Palestinians' future? A great international hue and cry followed t...
/ BARAK / 41 control of something like 40 percent of the West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied....
restart peace talks with Israel, however, the administration cut its contribution in early 2018 from $364 million to $60 million before ceasing payments altogether. Click here to read more... Donate Today How Obama Blew the Chance for Economic Peace by Mitchell Bard Iln 2009,...
restart peace talks with Israel, however, the administration cut its contribution in early 2018 from $364 million to $60 million before ceasing payments altogether. Click here to read more... Donate Today How Obama Blew the Chance for Economic Peace by Mitchell Bard Iln 2009,...
We were married there, in the spring of 1969. My parents and brothers came with two busloads of friends from the kibbutz. Avraham Arnan was there, of course. But Ahraleh Yariv and Eli Zeira, two of the military intelligence heroes of the Six-Day War, also drove up for the wedding...
/ BARAK / 61 wasn’t enough, David Levy, my Foreign Minister, told me he would not be joining me at Camp David. He wasn’t resigning, at least not yet. But he knew that the final decisions at the summit would be mine, he feared it would fail, and didn’t want to share in the conseq...
From: Mitchell Bard on behalf of Mitchell Bard Sent: 6/13/2019 12:46:24 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Reminder: AICE Update: Is UNRWA vital for the Palestinians' future? HOUSE OVERSIGHT 033517 Is UNRWA vital for the Palestinians' future? A great international hue and cry...
/ BARAK / 77 moment in the summit. If we cou/d find common ground, he said, Israel would have achieved what had eluded it under Rabin, and even Ben-Gurion: “end of conflict, and Jerusalem recognized internationally as your capital.” I told him that the discussion with my negotia...
Sephardim resented about the Ashkenazi, Labor Zionist establishment. Begin, at his rally, played it like a virtuoso. “Did you hear what they called you?” he cried. Chachachim. He slightly mispronounced the word, as if he’d never heard, much less used, it before, and that even hav...
/ BARAK / 41 control of something like 40 percent of the West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied....