process that raised as many questions as it answered, as something we could learn from. The second high-point was a couple named David and Leah Zimmerman. Though Mishmar Hasharon, like other kibbutzim, was secular, they introduced us to the Talmud, the ancient compendium of rabb...
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…igence to being a figure of much less intelligence and much less probity...” “Well,” says Pierce in some dramatic understatement, “you are going to have some low quality characters playing early in the space...” That evening, there is a small cocktail party, which includes the...
…g of the communique. The real value was in the corridors, and at the dinner held at one of King Juan Carlos’s palatial estates, and, for me, a first opportunity to meet not only Arab foreign ministers but Yasir Arafat. My first, brief encounter with Arafat began a bit embarrassi...
response, or an American one, on an incomparably greater scale. It would also totally isolate Saddam internationally and end any chance of peeling off Arab support for the Americans. It was my nearly 100-per-cent caveat that prompted a tense debate within the cabinet. Even if th...
they have to accomplish this all on their own. A// of us must assume that. Keep cool. Stay focused. Rely on your instincts. We’re ready for this mission. And we are going to achieve it.” One minute after four in the afternoon, we got the word to go. I was in the lead buggy, cons...
…an, which we’d have to overfly to reach Iraq. The Mossad had a unit called 7evel, a kind of shadow foreign ministry for states with which we had no formal relations but with which, in both side’s interests, we had a channel of backdoor communications. It was headed by Ephraim Hal...
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Lod. Two days later, Israeli television received a videotape showing the 19- year-old, hands and feet bound, pleading for his life in return for the release of the founder of Hamas, whom we had arrested and jailed in 1989. “The group from Hamas kidnapped me,” he said. “They are d...
their living spaces will be kept mercilessly clean. What, of that $1 billion investment, was going to Israel, I asked? Israeli companies were providing cement powder and sand, she said, and the project had consulted with "Israeli experts." "In some cases, you have to do that," s...
…e, even actively dissuading Israel from joining an attack? What would the domestic political situation be in the United States? Would there be an internal political consensus to act, or would there be an active, acrimonious debate? Would the American people be prepared for the af...
…ort of victims, Epstein and Brunel had used the agency to bring underage girls from for- eign countries into the United States by promising them model- ing contracts. These girls were then housed in condominiums belonging to Epstein. “Epstein and Brunel would then obtain a visa f...
…ve many of the more intangible issues, died more peacefully aged 93 in 2016, he had become one of the most accomplished statesmen of our age. But perhaps the greatest casualty from that era - when there were genuine expectations on both sides of the Israeli-Palestinian divide th...
…iators were feeling. Still, I’m sure none of them was surprised when my own old operational instincts kicked in. In my statement to journalists, I had been careful to say that Arafat was not ready at this time to make the historic compromises needed for peace. But before parting...
/ BARAK / 93 The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have changed that. Even though Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a...
ANNALS OF SCIENCE THE POWER OF NOTHING Could studying the placebo effect change the way we think about medicine? BY MICHAEL SPECTER Re years, Ted Kaptchuk performed acupuncture at a tiny clinic in Cam- bridge, a few miles from his current office, at the Harvard Medical School...