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/ BARAK / 36 compromises that we might have to contemplate during peace negotiations were still anathema to many other Israelis. Syria was always my first negotiating priority, as it had been for Rabin and, for a brief period, Bibi as well. This was not just because the shape o...

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OUP CORRECTED PROOF - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi xxxii The Crooked Course Territories and Personal Representative to the PLO and the Palestinian Authority at our new headquarters in Gaza city. The PLO had regained its uncontested leadership, and the Palestinian Authority received a...

…ate and resultant actions onto us with our response framed essentially as an effort to do what we can to try to address the Enemy’s grievance. (Your book, United in Hate, describes this addiction to hate in detail. The key to the Inner Jihad is to learn to transfer responsibilit...

…ns for Arafat, however, that is what we came to him with. As we’d discussed, I wanted finally to elicit some sign of whether Arafat, too, was ready to make difficult decisions. The questions were specific. “Will you accept an agreement that stipulates the following...” it began,...

Bibi is right about one thing. The negotiating challenges have become more difficult since Arafat’s refusal of our offer at Camp David. Arafat is no longer alive. Palestinian politics have become ever more fragmented and messy, not least as a result of the Hamas takeover of Gaza....

…a cluster of wood-and-tarpaper huts amid a few orange groves and vegetable fields and chicken coops. It was just across the road from an Arab village named Wadi Khawaret, which disappeared, with the establishment of the State of Israel, when I was six years old. As Prime Ministe...

it became clear that Israel had lost the public-opinion contest and may even be forced to relax the embargo on Gaza. Having found that it had done nothing wrong

this isolated Palestinian coastal enclave is experiencing its first real period of economic growth since the siege they are protesting began in 2007.

but so is this: Thousands of homes that were destroyed in the Israeli antirocket invasion two and a half years ago have not been rebuilt. Hospitals have canceled elective surgery for lack of supplies. Electricity remains maddeningly irregular. The much-publicized opening of the E...

there are issues of where to draw the baseline and — often — what motivates the discussion. It has never been among the world’s poorest places. There is near universal literacy and relatively low infant mortality

all of them eight- and nine-story residential properties. He said there were some 130 engineering and design firms in Gaza. Two years ago

and other terrorist groups in that region” by “participat[ing] in the scheme to fund terrorists in Gaza

and on its assault on the humanitarian aid flotilla uncover only the tip of the iceberg of Israel's violations of international law. The UN is within its rights to sanction Israel for its defiance of international laws and norms. However

…AM To: Nil Priell Barak Subject: Re: begining edits David Ben Gurion was asked why he, after 2000 years, in contrast to the many great leaders in the past was uniquely able to re -established the State of Israel. BG responded that he thought that it must have been true that in an...