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…t we could inflict damage on Hizbollah. But there were no clear answers to the questions Shimon had raised. The initial Israeli air force response had been put in place more than five years earlier, when I was Prime Minister. Codenamed “Operation Cinnamon Sticks,” it was designed...

/ BARAK / 89 question of Jerusalem — than any Israeli leader in the search for peace. Even before I'd left for Camp David, the defections from our coalition meant we’d been left with only 42 seats in the Knesset, nineteen short of a majority. Amid the first, sketchy media report...

… book contains a work and a home telephone number for the senator. air New York reality , hi Another acquaintance was Israel defence secretary Ehud Barak, whose spokesman told The Mail anew on Sunday: ‘Mr Barak did attend several small functions in Mr Epstein’s home in New Yor...

… Romney says Obama takes his values not from the small towns of America but from “the capitals of Europe.” Obama treats Israel the way European countries do — with “suspicion” and “distrust.” He’s offering “European answers to American problems.” He’s projecting a weak United Sta...

… in opposition to external actors such as the pro-regime Russia. Given Erdogan's sharp differences with Washington over Israel-Palestine and the Iraq war

the only outpost of the western way of life in the Middle East – at the meeting point of the ""clash of civilizations"" between Islam and the West

that the memory of 2006 is still fresh in his mind and he will not act. I have my reservations about the deterministic nature of this statement. ""Deterrence"" is a somewhat elusive term. This is not a ""zero sum game"" on a one-dimensional bar. This is a complex and context-rela...

and will never ask others to fight for us – yet the US has deployed advanced radar systems in Israel to provide early warning against long-range missiles

but there will be no such agreements with the Palestinians or with Syria in the foreseeable future. The Palestinians have taken themselves out of the game for now. We cannot turn from them to the Syrians while Assad’s troops are using howitzers and sniper rifles against his peopl...

led by Netanyahu. Free and democratic Arab countries won’t shrink from supporting this Palestinian right under any circumstances. Muslims will not give up on East Jerusalem

…constant moving of the goal posts and the constraints of the administration's unshakeable political instinct to support Israel.

we will use the term ""Israel"" to connote all of the Hebrew and Jewish entities that have existed in the Levant since the invasion of the region as chronicled in the Book of Joshua. As always

…hough smaller raiding parties could. The tribes of the Arabian Peninsula lack the reach or the size to pose a threat to Israel

a Mediterranean empire that wanted to control both the northern and southern littorals needed to anchor its eastern flank on the Levant. For one thing

it can be a completely independent state. This condition occurs when there are no major imperial powers external to the region. We might call this the David model. Second