…eology he inherited, his opposition to Israel and his support for resistance movements such as Hizbullah in Lebanon and Hamas in Gaza, gave him immunity from popular discontent. In an interview with The Wall Street Journal on 31 January, he claimed that Syria could not be compare...
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…d around one goal: to create a Palestinian Tahrir Square. They organized the unity march that helped pressure Fatah and Hamas to reconcile. Ten days ago, they organized the Nakba Day protests in which refugees marched on Israel’s borders. What they’re doing isn’t exactly new. Pa...
…efinition of how our soldiers would operate alongside the new local police in the event of a terror attack, violence by Hamas or Islamic Jihad, or, for that matter, a car crash involving an Israeli and a Palestinian. He agreed this needed to be addressed, although it was clear he...
… and vowing to defeat Labor, Bibi had seized on Oslo I to accuse Rabin of “surrendering” to Arafat, and by extension to Hamas terrorism. I couldn’t sleep the night before the cabinet meeting. I had no desire to be disloyal to Yitzhak. I certainly didn’t want to add to the pressu...
… new “disengagement line” with the West Bank. It was the suggestion rejected under Rabin, accepted under Peres amid the Hamas bombings in the 1996 election campaign, but never followed through on. Even under the new arrangement I envisaged, Israeli troops would retain the freedom...