Results for “One Israel”

…'s great satisfaction. Meanwhile, Turkey is deeply concerned by the Syrian disturbances: Damascus has been the cornerstone of Ankara's ambitious Arab policy. Turkey-Syria relations have flourished in recent years as Turkey-Israel relations have grown cold. Prime Minister Recep T...

…rael's culture of impunity. FP: Can America be an effective broker in negotiations? SE: If the U.S. decides to be an honest broker, it could not only be effective but in fact could bring real peace to the region, a just and lasting one. The U.S. has a moral obligation toward th...

secret agent — the prisoners still had to explain why they had hidden 15 kg of the military explosive RDX under bushes on a Mombasa golf course. Created to advance Iran’s interests clandestinely overseas, the Quds Force has lately provided mostly embarrassment, stumbling in Azer...

…tion we were planning proved remarkably accurate. Some of the details still remain classified, but we were going to use one of our new “stand-off” weapons systems: a camera-guided missile that could be fired from a considerable distance away and, in coordination with one of the S...

…poke. But as we embraced, I could feel my eyes dampen, and there were tears in his eyes as well. “Our squadron was the one that got the call to bring out the casualties,” he said. “They ordered the pilot who brought out Nechemia not to tell me he was dead... until the war was ov...

…tion we were planning proved remarkably accurate. Some of the details still remain classified, but we were going to use one of our new “stand-off” weapons systems: a camera-guided missile that could be fired from a considerable distance away and, in coordination with one of the S...

…adical left. As a self-described “midwife at the birth of the counterculture,” Mr. Fass, in his time behind the microphone, has borne witness to some unusual episodes. The second night his show aired, a listener set the tone by de- livering marijuana to the station. There was t...

… are aware of the payments and can assure that the payments were properly made under the circumstances. For example, in one instance, a Kazakh immigration prosecutor threatened to fine, jail, or deport employees ofa US. company’s subsidiary. Believing the threats to be genuine,...

…et at the Israeli consulate. We spoke in detail about the state of the negotiations. With Molcho still in the room, I phoned Bibi in Jerusalem on the secure phone line. I said I’d just been updated on the talks, and it seemed clear there were a number of suggestions Israel could...

…et at the Israeli consulate. We spoke in detail about the state of the negotiations. With Molcho still in the room, I phoned Bibi in Jerusalem on the secure phone line. I said I’d just been updated on the talks, and it seemed clear there were a number of suggestions Israel could...

… threats from enemies for whom talk was not even an option. An increasingly assertive Iran, with nuclear ambitions, was one. But the intifada had also thrown up new Palestinian groups grounded not in nationalism, but fundamentalist Islam: Hamas in Gaza, which opposed Israel’s pre...

…Even then the resolution was framed in terms of sovereignty and did not mention specific human rights violations, let alone genocide.’ Only in 1980, nearly five years after the atrocities began, did the UNCHR finally pass a resolution condemning the genocide. The hard left was s...

…inst the explicit wishes of President Obama. I felt this even more strongly when, a few weeks later, I was contacted by one of Bibi’s close political allies. He sounded me out on the possibility of launching our strike against Iran after the joint exercise: barely two weeks befor...

…gional alliance as representing the main strategic challenge to the Jewish state. This alliance looks to be emerging as one of the net losers of the Arab upheavals of 2011. This, however, should be cause for neither satisfaction nor complacency for Israel. The forces moving in to...

…the Knesset, as Defense Minister. I still vividly remember a visitor to the sayeret the day after Eshkol’s address. Colonel Eli Zeira was head of the “collection department” of the intelligence corps, the rough equivalent of America’s National Security Agency. Formally, Sayeret...