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…r. “If a single child can learn that politics is not just intrigues,” Peres told me, “I will be satisfied that we have done our bit.” Just one week later, when he and Dayan had reversed their position for no discernable reason, and were seated snugly around the cabinet table, I a...

…e was more violence. To assume that if we just sat back we would win seemed to me complacent and risky. Yet when I mentioned to Shimon that a couple of our internal polls still actually had Bibi slightly ahead, he just laughed. “I have good polls,” he said. ““Why should I believe...

…ine issue. This was a complicated and frustrating business—and quite hard to communicate to his father-in-law —hbecause one of Bannon’s accusations against Kushner, the administration’s point person on the Middle East, was that he was not nearly tough enough in his defense of Isr...

…s should ask the UN General Assembly to rescind Resolution 181 and to request a new resolution for the establishment of one state in historic Palestine. Although this responsibility falls under the Security Council, the constant exercise by the US of its veto power to protect Isr...

… lead to some unlikely meetings taking place. The Morsi-Ahmadinejad embrace may not be a breakthrough, but it does show one thing: what was unthinkable a few years ago may one day be the norm. Article 4. Al-Monitor Hamas Weighs Options For Recognizing Israel Adnan Abu Amer Feb...

…srael, we were both invited to speak at the celebration of Israel’s 60" birthday. Many world leaders were also invited. One of the events was held in the Inbal Hotel in Jerusalem. I got into the elevator and by coincidence both Mikael Gorbachov and Sharansky got into the same el...

…present Sharanksy. The request came from his wife, who was in Israel, and his mother, who lived in Moscow. They had no money to pay for a lawyer. We agreed to do what we could to save his life and, hopefully, secure his freedom. Our first job was to try to get the espionage char...

…More often, I’d see the President’s deft diplomacy second-hand, through intercepts of Arab leaders’ communications with one another. But the picture which emerged was of an American president deftly able to stake out common ground, and common interests, with each of the Americans...

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One night’s massacre would have been enough to produce the outcry that resulted once the first news reports, photos and TV pictures were sent around the world. That the bloodletting was allowed to continue after we knew what was going on, beyond the cost in innocent lives, made t...

…o Kenyatta’s security services and Mossad had been close for some years. I flew in with three leading Mossad men. While one of them called on the aging President Kenyatta, our main point of contact, was the head of Kenya’s security services. Since the secrecy of the mission had t...

…st Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of the teachers and injurin...

July 1, now less than 36 hours away. Having moved the passengers off the plane to one of the terminal buildings, they were threatening to start killing them unless we freed a list of 53 Palestinians and PLO supporters, forty of them held in Israel and the rest in a number of Euro...

…st Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of the teachers and injurin...

…ment, and the Industrial Revolution. No other civilization can take credit for giving birth to modernity. This was not done with some benign intent to uplift humanity in general; there were many problems along the way, and the explosion of Western power across the globe had some...