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…people have shown they are open to great adventures that serve development, hence peace. Jean Pierre Raffarin is former prime minister of France and president of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs, Military and Defense Commission, and Xu Gai is his advisor on China affairs. CONTACT US...

… finding replacements who were sufficiently experienced, but did not bear responsibility for the errors of the war. For Prime Minister, the choice fell on Yitzhak Rabin. He had strong military credentials, of course. But he had left the army and entered politics, and had been out...

…alk. Politics. Strategy. Israel. The PLO. The surrounding Arab states. And the wider world. Many years before I became Prime Minister, I gave a lecture at a memorial meeting for an Israeli academic. Not many people were there. I doubt even they remember it. But I do, because wha...

…icans. Almost all his experience in public life — as a military officer, ambassador to Washington, Defense Minister and Prime Minister — had coincided with Republican administrations. The irony was that he would go on to forge a much closer relationship with President Clinton tha...

… After we took off, I used the on- board phone facility and, with a swipe of a credit card, was soon on the line to the Prime Minister. Since the exchange was in Hebrew, I’m fairly sure anyone overhearing me had no idea what we were talking about. “I need you to come back as soon...

…alk. Politics. Strategy. Israel. The PLO. The surrounding Arab states. And the wider world. Many years before I became Prime Minister, I gave a lecture at a memorial meeting for an Israeli academic. Not many people were there. I doubt even they remember it. But I do, because wha...

… portrayed as a military novice who’d gone into battle without understanding the wartime role and responsibilities of a Prime Minister. Halutz’s “excess of charisma” was held responsible for keeping ministers, and military officers as well, from questioning his judgement or press...

…lition in late 2002. But in Israel’s 2003 election — reverting to the old rules again, with a single vote for party and Prime Minister — Arik and the Likud won resoundingly. They doubled their Knesset seats, to 38. Labor, now with only 19 seats, against turned to Shimon Peres, as...

… yet attacked, and frustrated with me as well. We held dozens of meetings, sometimes two or three a day, chaired by the Prime Minister, sometimes by me as Defense Minister, or by the chief of staff or service commanders. Invariably, I began my remarks by saying: “We have to destr...

…eaves next April, we want you to replace him as chief-of-staff.” Briefly and unusually tongue-tied, I said: “Thank you, Prime Minister’. The news was made public the next morning. A few days later, it was ratified by the government. There was only one vote against, from a former...

…f the Muslim Brotherhood, which protested what it considered to be a biased ballot. It remains unclear who will succeed Prime Minister Abdullah Ensur (who submitted his resignation to King Abdullah on January 29"), although analysts and commentators consider it likely that a numb...

…- ple have shown they are open to great adventures that serve development, hence peace. Jean Pierre Raffarin is former prime minister of France and president of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs, Military and Defense Commission, and Xu Gat ts his advisor on China affairs. CONTACT US...

…s and Rabin. Misha Arens was again Minister of Defense. I began preparing regular, fortnightly reports for him, Dan and Prime Minister Shamir. Within days of the invasion, I produced my initial assessment. The bottom line was that we had to assume there would be a war. It was imp...

… tough exterior. The toughness was there, however. One of the first major security crises we faced after Shamir became Prime Minister was known as the Kav 300 affair, named for the bus route between the southern port city of Ashdod and Tel Aviv. On the evening of April 12, 1984,...

… yet attacked, and frustrated with me as well. We held dozens of meetings, sometimes two or three a day, chaired by the Prime Minister, sometimes by me as Defense Minister, or by the chief of staff or service commanders. Invariably, I began my remarks by saying: “We have to destr...