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…shington taking the lead, a cease-fire was agreed. Both sides claimed victory. But both were exhausted. Certainly, most Israelis had ceased to see a compelling reason for the 1,000 days of fighting. We had lost about 900 dead: more than in the Six-Day War. But in one respect, th...

…ewish and democratic identities at home, pairing our physical strength with an equally strong moral centre — is that we Israelis are now in danger of jettisoning the example of David Ben-Gurion. For Yasir Arafat’s. 14 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011485

…ng the Gaza Strip into a base for Islamic terrorism which will threaten the state.” To this day, Bibi, along with many Israelis across the political spectrum, draws a direct line between our pullout from Gaza, Hamas’s takeover and its violent purging of Fatah’s old guard there,...

…offi- cials have acknowledged provid- ing payments to the families of Palestinians killed while carrying out attacks on Israelis or con- victed of terrorist acts and impris- oned in Israel; that is not a con- spiracy theory. An article on Saturday about President Trump’s critici...

…m march but of the counter-demonstrators, and, of course, the local Palestinian population. As the rival marches by the Israelis proceeded, I personally delivered warnings against any violence, both to the settlement leaders and to a pair of the most prominent counter-protesters,...

…air strikes and naval fire, the Palestinian death toll was around 150, about one-tenth of what it had been in 2008. Six Israelis, including four civilians, lost their lives. On the 21* of November, the cease-fire was announced. Yet with the election approaching, and my time in p...

…ats, the results demonstrate again that liberalism is their Torah. Almost 70% voted for a president widely perceived by Israelis and most committed Jews as hostile to Israel . They voted to secure Obama's future at America 's expense and at Israel 's expense - in effect, preferri...

… few stolen evenings or weekends with my family. The timing had nothing to do with the election. Like most other Labor Israelis, and many of Begin’s own supporters, I hadn’t expected the Likud to win. It was because I felt I'd reached a natural punctuation mark in my military ca...

…tunnels from the Sinai had become rife. Rockets from Gaza were now landing on southern Israel. Hundreds of thousands of Israelis were living with the reality of a warning siren and a rapid dash into their shelters. For a while, amid negotiations through Egypt to end the rocket fi...

…ope and poverty with prosperity. Once security in the Middle East is attained, including a negotiated peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians, the USA must respond with an “end- state” perspective to draw a comprehensive solution similar to the Marshall Plan. Going from p...

… brought down Slobodan Milosevic in Serbia. No one wants a second intifada, he insisted. “It hurt us much more than the Israelis.” When I asked Quran what his movement believes, I expected to hear about borders and refugees and Jerusalem. Instead, he began talking HOUSE_OVERSIG...

…on Sunday June 6. The publicly declared aim was Little Pines: the establishment of our 40-kilometer security zone. Both Israelis and the Americans were led to believe it would be a relatively short operation aimed at destroying the PLO’s military capacity in the border area. We a...

…ce to deafen his ears, and he did not hear the voice of murder waiting in ambush.” Dayan said the danger was that other Israelis had become similarly naive. “How did we shut our eyes, and refuse to see, in all its brutality, the destiny of our generation?” A generation which was...

…ust weeks after the downfall of Mubarak, Egypt allowed Iranian warships to cross the Suez Canal, provoking uproar among Israelis and even Americans. In succeeding months, the diplomatic flirtation between the two countries took an even more interesting turn when Egyptian Foreign...

…ters or editors, commentators or politicians. Opinion polls the day afterwards showed that something like 80 percent of Israelis believed what I’d said. I think this was only partly due to the details of the argument I made. When you’re under such close, direct scrutiny, I’m sure...