Results for “Peace Now”

/ 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...

…roups on the other. But Syria's internal troubles might just as easily have a negative effect. Undoubtedly, the failed peace process has bred extreme frustration among Palestinian militants, some of whom may think that a sharp shock is needed to wrench international attention aw...

…party, which includes the former Prime Minister of Australian, Kevin Rudd, and Thorbjorn Jagland, the head of the Nobel Peace Prize Committee, who offers an affable, but generally scathing, critique of U.S. diplomacy (and a brief defense of Obama’s Peace Prize award) and to whom...

…rnational terrorism and the provision of material support for terrorism and to assert that it poses a serious threat to peace and security. See, e.g., S.C. Res. 1373 (Sept. 28, 2001) (deciding that States shall “[p]revent and suppress the financing of terrorist acts,” and “[c]rim...

… few thousand extra votes, we would have won the election, he said. He was sure Bibi’s coalition — “a coalition against peace” — would not survive for long. Giora, smiling, turned to me and said: “It doesn’t sound like a farewell speech. It seems like he’s ready for the next roun...

…ynbee once recalled a passing moment with British Prime Minister Lloyd George during the endless (and disastrous) Paris Peace Conference of 1919. “Lloyd George, to my delight, had forgotten my presence,” Toynbee wrote, “and began to think aloud. ‘Mesopotamia...yes...oil...irrigat...

Libya: Is there any hope for peace or will it become a hub for regional instability and violence? No and yes -The US/EU/NATO toppling of long-time strongman Muammar Gaddafi has led to a cycle of instability and continuous violence. - It has also led to severe cuts in oil produ...

/ BARAK / 92 Still, in my meetings with Clinton, I assured him I was not giving up altogether on the prospects for peace. Not only did I feel that would be wrong, as long as there was a scintilla of hope. I believed that our continued diplomatic engagement might provide a counte...

…feated Arab states was gone for good. We assumed that inevitably, inexorably, they would realize they needed to sue for peace, and that there was no particular urgency on our part to do anything more than wait. Then, on Yom Kippur 1973, all of that had been turned on its head. We...

…ah wills it, we shall kill all of them, and there will still be 35 million of us left.” We humans may enjoy periods of peace—sometimes for a long time— but we shall never entirely rid ourselves of war because we are “wired” to fight over pieces of land. Konrad Lorenz, Robert Ard...

…atyushas. It was a way of using military force to achieve Prime Minister Begin’s political aim: stopping the Camp David peace process in its tracks, and ensuring it did not go beyond the peace treaty with Egypt. And even that message was not principally intended for the Palestini...

…ed. All I was doing, from their perspective, was giving Bibi political cover for abandoning any serious effort to get a peace agreement. Their argument was entirely reasonable. My frustration was that, due to the need for military secrecy, the counter-argument was impossible for...

… of the 48’ war. | believe Menachem Begin had it,as several years after the bitter 73’ war he was able to make a daring peace with Egypt. Als Izhak Rabin,who now 20yrs ago, signed the Peace treaty with Jordan though in amidst a wave of terror. He faced huge internal rejection but...

… being comical. But in fact the whole thing is farcical, in my opinon. In the US, Iran is “the greatest threat to world peace”, intoned constantly from on high, in the media, everywhere. There is also such a thing as world opinion, as measured by such ultra-radicals as Gallup. It...

My fear — not just on issues like the Saudi peace plan, but in charting our place in a dramatically changed world, and safeguarding our twin Jewish and democratic identities at home, pairing our physical strength with an equally strong moral centre — is that we Israelis are now i...