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… that a peace agreement was within reach, I had confidence he would make the effort. I had allowed Gili Sher and Shlomo Ben-Ami to go to Washington the week before for exploratory talks with Dennis Ross. Shlomo, as I knew he’d done in the back- channel talks with the Palestinians...

…o a tank crew who had taken refuge a few miles back from the canal. I’d lost two wonderful sayeret comrades, too: Amit Ben-Horn, the soldier who’d relayed the order from Motta to abort our second attempt to abduct the Syrian officers in Lebanon, and Amitai Nachmani, the officer...

… a lot of employed airplane mechanics. Where did we get the idea that education was about scholarship? This is not what Ben Franklin thought when our system was being designed, but he was outvoted. The need to please teachers: People who succeed at school are invariably people w...

…a New World Order" speech by Pres. George H.W. Bush — 9/11 (1990) HOUSE OVERSIGHT 015002 2. WTC Attack — 9/11 (2001) 3. BENGHAZI Attack — 9/11 (2012) But you have to remember that H. W. Bush was planted: AUTHOR PETER DALE SCOTT: Sometimes you have little deep events that most peo...

…her individual who is fighting back. The risks of significant personal injury are therefore high, even if the potential benefit is death to an opponent. As the British anthropologist Richard Wrangham has suggested, animals can surmount these costs by attacking and killing only wh...

…people on the kibbutz, only to be told we’d never wanted to employ outsiders in the first place. It was only because of Ben-Gurion that we felt unable to refuse. I’m sure that was true, but it seemed to me an incomplete answer, and an evasion. It struck me as an exercise in findi...

…ent to proceed with his initial strategy. First, in Israel, elections resulted in the return of hard-line Likud leader, Benjamin Netanyahu, to the prime minister’s office. He had served as prime minister in the period 1996–1999 and had strenuously resisted U.S. efforts to move fo...

…ever, there wasn’t going to be a peace deal. As our El Al 707 descended over the Mediterranean for our approach back to Ben-Gurion Airport, I faced the more immediate issue of ensuring my government survived. This was partly in case, against all odds, Arafat showed a readiness to...

…rass.” The other panelist was scheduled to be former Nixon speechwriter and now bespectacled, drone-voiced personality Ben Stein, but he canceled out at the last minute. Ann Coulter, former Justice Department attorney and Senate aide, now a professional reactionary and Stepford...

… I also spent time working out how to square what I felt I needed to say, with what many in the audience, and certainly Ben-Zion and Bibi, would expect me to say. Not only was Yoni being mourned across Israel after Entebbe. He was being elevated — in the spirit of Shimon’s words...

…lly in mid-September. I spoke personally to Tony Blair and French President Jacques Chirac, and also dispatched Shlomo-Ben Ami, Amnon Lipkin, Yossi Beilin and Shimon Peres, who was Minister of Regional Cooperation in the coalition, on a series of diplomatic visits to make sure t...

… universe of investors would likely boost the trading multiples of the firms' stocks. It's unclear how big the economic benefit of increased ownership would be, so the question is whether it would make up for the higher taxes. "There's no way to say how much multiple expansion yo...

…s led to a challenge for Mishmar Hasharon. The core of the kibbutz ethos was that we would live from our own labor. Yet Ben-Gurion insisted we and other kibbutzim provide work for the Yemenis and other new arrivals from the Arab states. We began hiring Yemeni workers when I was a...

…go see Arafat personally. The two members of our team who were the least pessimistic about Camp David’s outcome, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yossi Ginossar, also said they thought it was a good idea. It was they who’d pressed me to go see Arafat for tea and sweets earlier in the summit. B...

…ting 9/11s) 1. "Toward a New World Order" speech by Pres. George H.W. Bush — 9/11 (1990) 2. WTC Attack — 9/11 (2001) 3. BENGHAZI Attack — 9/11 (2012) But you have to remember that H. W. Bush was planted: AUTHOR PETER DALE SCOTT: Sometimes you have little deep events that most peo...