part because of Bruria Shaked, his girlfriend, whom he’d met while commanding the tank unit after 1973. While he was a thinker and a brooder and in many ways a loner, Bruria was outgoing, playful, funny and full of life. She sensed his need for a shoulder to lean on, a hand to ho...
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/ BARAK / 119 receiving money from Talansky. But he insisted it was all a part of election campaign contributions. Publicly, I reserved judgement. “I hope, for everyone’s sake, and for Prime Minister Olmert’s sake, that the suspicions now circulating turn out to be baseless,” I...
4.2.12 WC: 191694 constitutional law weren’t sound enough, and subsequently became one of the most distinguished law professors at Yale, advised me against going to Harvard: “You won’t fit in there,” he warned me. When I recounted this story to my Harvard colleague of 50 years,...
Presidential News Bulleti 24 August, 2011 Arce’ The Daily Beast Obama’s True Claim to Fame Michael Tomasky Article 2. | Stratfor Israeli-Arab Crisis Approaching George Friedman AnicleS-’ The Financial Times Why Assad need not fear Gaddafi’s fate Ed Husain ancl’ 4.) The Chr...
The day before the end of basic training, I was told to return to Maka Esser. A Jeep was waiting. A soldier was at the wheel. He mumbled hello and drove me to a sprawling military base about 15 minutes away, not too far from the international airport in Lod. It was built by the B...
Challenging though our training was, I found every bit of it enthralling and, with each new test passed, somehow empowering and exhilirating. This was all the more remarkable because we had still yet to carry out a single operation. If anyone other than Avraham had been in charge...
line. In a stroke of good fortune, the brigade commander was Dovik Tamari, Avraham Arnan’s first successor as commander of the sayeret. While we waited our forward deployment, due in September, he included me in his discussions with his senior officers on tactics and planning. Th...
because we were people with whom Rabin felt comfortable — a counterpoint, I suspect, to the old Labor Party rival whom he had made Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres. Though the two men had grown to respect each another over the years, Rabin neither trusted, nor much liked, Shimon. I...
Article 2. Herald Tribune Buying Into Palestinian Statehood Yossi Alpher, Colette Avital, Shlomo Gazit, and Mark Heller June 24, 201 1— Instead of wasting time and energy trying to revive a moribund Israeli-Palestinian peace process, the United States and European Union shoul...
they even insisted I change my name. I was no longer Ehud Brog. I’d Hebraicized it: to Barak, which seemed near enough to the original. Among the few dozen outside the unit who did know about my role, however, were paratroopers who’d joined us on various missions. One of them now...
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Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...
could see that a similar myopia, or denial, was affecting the armored corps. On patrol along the canal, I would sometimes see the hulk of an Israeli tank which had been destroyed by Soviet-made AT-3s. Known as Saggers, they were portable, allowing a single soldier to fire wire-gu...
…ling. We also agreed on two other preconditions. We would have to secure international legitimacy, most of all from the Americans, for what would be a clear act of self-defense. And we’d need to demonstrate an imperative urgency to act, with the approach of the “zone of immunity”...
Dershowitz details chat about Israel with president at his estate - The Bo... https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/04/06/dershowitz-detai... 3 of 8 Dershowitz wouldnt repeat what Trump told him privately but felt comfortable recounting the parts of the their conversat...