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…he Airya. To the extent that Arik and Raful saw any cloud on the horizon, it was their concern about “several thousand” Palestinian fighters who they were certain had stayed on in Beirut despite the evacuation. True, Bashir Gemayel hadn’t been formally inaugurated as president. T...

…with Arik now moved to defense minister, would further put the brakes on any follow-up negotiations for a deal with the Palestinians. I did not yet know that Arik, in particular, had a far more ambitious, military plan to try to bury the possibility of a Palestinian state once an...

…e Israel’s blockade of Gaza seems to be a parable for something else, part of an unstated effort to recast the Israeli- Palestinian narrative in extreme terms. Instead of helping to clarify what Gaza needs and how it might build a future, the saga has merely brought out the publi...

…t 14°, paranoid barge hounds barked in big dog baritones. | ran on the Hebrew University track a block away from a loud Palestinian bomb left in a refrigerator near a busy street corner. Breathless at nine thousand feet in Aspen, gagging on the strong manure smell of Sacramento V...

…ny believe that the root cause for all the problems in the Middle East… is our inability to solve the conflict with the Palestinians. • Well, I say… That’s not true! • Recent developments in the Middle East have been far beyond our control… and independent of our deeds. • Eve...

…mate realization of the prophetic vision of history. That is why, for some religious Jews, admitting the existence of a Palestinian nation whose homeland is the Holy Land is tantamount to violating the integrity of the Jewish people's covenantal identity. But the Jews faced a dil...

the Obama administration clearly wanted to win an Israeli-Palestinian peace agreement. There has been no progress during its two years in office

the Palestinians turned to unilateral measures: seeking a United Nations vote admitting the State of Palestine to membership and getting dozens of countries to recognize a Palestinian state. Meanwhile

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

…fate of the Jews are the Jews themselves,” observed M. M. Silver, an Israeli historian and the author of “Our Exodus.” “Palestinian forces are trying to make the same point through the flotilla, that Israel has no right to control the fate of Palestinians.” Several months after...

…de the “security zone”. Not much further north were two full Syrian divisions. That meant we’d be fighting not just the Palestinians, which was the ostensible aim of Little Pines. We would have to take on Syria. As soon as those hostilities began, we would have to destroy radar a...

…ne way or another, the Americans could listen in, but was fairly confident we were beyond the electronic earshot of the Palestinians. I kept myself fully informed of, but at a distance from, the specific work of our five negotiating teams. Though I could not have stayed engaged w...

/ BARAK / 69 municipal functions and daily life would be divided between Israel and the Palestinians under a peace agreement. When I convened our negotiators in my cabin to take stock of the logjam, I was getting more and more skeptical of finding a way to get to actual negotia...

…es. Either we could retain Isrsaeli sovereignty over a “united Jerusalem” with functional, day-to- day autonomy for the Palestinians in their neighborhoods, or we could in effect divide the city. “Divide sovereignty.” He didn’t say which he favored, only that it was essential tha...

…. Will Israel think big? Can Israel coalesce parties around a solution to Iran issue. Can they do this by agreeing to a Palestinian solution. DR: Now would be a moment for Israel to take a brave initiative with Turkey. Having an Islamic country as an ally may give cover to other...