Results for “Prime Minister Meir”

… Americans knew that no matter what I might say to them, it was Bibi’s actions that ultimately mattered. He, not I, was Prime Minister. I was as surprised as they were when he finally announced a settlement freeze in November 2009. As with nearly everything else he did regarding...

… the White House turn if it wants some kind of peace process in the Middle East? Syria. After all, in his first term as prime minister, back in 1998, Benjamin Netanyahu did authorize indirect negotiations with Syria. And the [DF—and especially Ehud Barak, a former head of the IDF...

…rm limits for the first time in Senegalese history. In 2012 President Wade was defeated in a democratic election by his Prime Minister Macky Sall. The United States and the larger international community praised Wade for his quick concession and praised peaceful transition of pow...

…rmer minister of finance serves on the board of a majority-Chinese-owned New Zealand dairy. In late September, a former prime minister who now represents an American company’s interests in China attracted attention for the sale of property “well above market rates” to an undisclo...

…rm limits for the first time in Senegalese history. In 2012 President Wade was defeated in a democratic election by his Prime Minister Macky Sall. The United States and the larger international community praised Wade for his quick concession and praised peaceful transition of pow...

…er Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations, Geneva Chairman, North and South America Prime Minister of Belgium Federal Councillor of Environment, Transport, Energy and Communications of the Swiss Confederation Chairman President Mountaineer...

…e resolution was adopted, I engaged in intense negotiations with President Assad, who until the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafic Hariri on 14 February 2005, was consistently resistant to move on the issue. On 12 March 2005, I was airborne with a small UN team, among t...

…bitious Arab policy. Turkey-Syria relations have flourished in recent years as Turkey-Israel relations have grown cold. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, have actively sought to mediate local conflicts and bring much-needed stability t...

…wment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002–2004) and deputy prime minister (2004–2005) of Jordan

…s, he was smart. He was organizationally astute. He’d been a good sayeret officer. Yet as I'd said it my TV spot, being Prime Minister required much more than that. I was now an elected Knesset member. But I had gone into politics in the hope of making a difference to how Israel...

…opularize options trading while working at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette in New York. Died June 18. Gyula Horn, 80. The prime minister of Hungary from 1994 to 1998, who as foreign minister in 1989 helped trigger events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Died June 19. James...

…obviously denounce the idea of giving up the Golan Heights, even though Bibi had been ready to do just that when he was Prime Minister. But even on the left, there was little enthusiasm for returning the Golan. There were far fewer Israeli settlers there than on the West Bank, no...

…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...