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…and an operational tempo — nine overseas plots uncovered in nine months — that carries a whiff of desperation. A Tehran government long branded by U.S. officials as the globe’s leading exporter of terrorism may be cornering the market on haplessness. Within Iran’s own borders, h...

…Israeli occupation.” But we had a primary responsibility to protect our citizens. I was now working with a new Israeli government. After Shimon Peres tried and failed to topple the unity coalition in the spring of 1990, Shamir had formed a Likud-led government shorn of both Pere...

…t this dinner, all technology entrepreneurs, represented, together, over a hundred billion dollars. “In the past, only governments had this amount of money,” says Epstein conversationally, but making a pedagogical point, “money at a reality altering scale. In fact, it used to be...

… cobble together the required 61-seat majority with an assortment of smaller parties. But without Labor as ballast, his government would be even more precarious than mine. When I triggered the election, he’d let it be known that if he won, he hoped to include Labor in his governm...

…s dinner, all technology entrepreneurs, represented, together, several hundred billion dollars. “In the past, only governments had this kind of money,” says Epstein conversationally, but making a pedagogical point, “money of a reality altering scale. In fact, it used to be t...

OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi The Crooked Course Xxxi government. In the following days, I flew to Israel to convey the request to Yossi Beilin, then Deputy Foreign Minister. Shortly afterwards, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres dispatched the Director General of the...

/ BARAK / 74 government that the area around the temple’s surviving Western Wall, left uncared for under the Jordanians, was cleared and a stone plaza put in place for worshipers —at the expense of parts of the old Moroccan Quarter. It was under Labor, too, that Israel unilatera...

…ael of course, but also the stability of our neighbourhood and of the world. In those circumstances, even if an Israeli government was strong enough, wise enough, forward-looking enough to pursue avenues for negotiated peace with its immediate neighbours, getting the popular supp...

…en that message was not principally intended for the Palestinians, I suspect, but for the Americans. Israel’s Labor-led governments had always calculated that we needed at least some measure of support from foreign allies, especially the US. Under Begin, we'd already bombed Sadda...

…political groups further to the left and particularly the pressure group Peace Now, formed in 1978 to protest the Begin government’s obvious desire to use the peace with Egypt as a means to limit, rather than actively explore, prospects for a wider agreement with the Palestinians...

…ation expectations side of the argument. But Michael Hartnett also thinks it means more action on fiscal policy. The UK government have implemented a £24bn infrastructure fund in the Autumn statement. Donald Trump wants to trigger up to $1tn of infrastructure spending in the US i...

8 reality to portray Fatah as colluding with Israel against the Palestinian people during a confrontation. For its part, Hamas has the support of Islamists in the region, including Shiite Iranians, but that is an explosive mix to base a strategy on. Hamas must break its isolati...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 as “so proud” and so “endowed with intelligence,” but who “have in the main given their acquiescence or their support to the Nixon ethos” which has led to the death, maiming, and displacement of “some six million Southeast Asians.” Berrigan referred to the iro...

Palestinian feelings cut across most, if not all, opposition groups. It 1s a singular, unifying force that might suffice to break the military's power, or at least to force the military to shift its Israeli policy. Hamas in conflict with Israel as the United Nations votes for a P...

armies: one-and-a-half million soldiers. Thousands of tanks. Hundreds of fighter jets. Other, much larger nations had endured months, even years, of hell before prevailing in such circumstances: the Soviet Union, for instance, with its huge strategic depth, or France, rescued by...