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Bibi is right about one thing. The negotiating challenges have become more difficult since Arafat’s refusal of our offer at Camp David. Arafat is no longer alive. Palestinian politics have become ever more fragmented and messy, not least as a result of the Hamas takeover of Gaza....

asked what he knew about the car outside. “Nothing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture J...

and seize an opportunity. Statesmanship and leadership.. During the last three years we have been living through a geo political earthquake. The world order, which existed since the demise of the Ottoman Empire , is collapsing. The Arab Spring appears to have turned into an Isla...

every aspect of the killings — including any failings by the army, the Shin Bet, the police or other authorities that might have allowed the tragedy to happen. The commission interviewed dozens of witnesses, Israeli and Palestinian, in 31 separate sessions. I knew early on that t...

…ller 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 should take another look at the Palestinian initiative to seek U.N. recognition in September. What is described in some qua...

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… possible ground incursion. But both Bibi and I knew we were going to avoid that if at all possible, and we did. Though there were inevitable civilian casualties, most of the Palestinians killed were Hamas fighters and leaders, including not just Jabari but the head of Hamas’s ro...

 17 April, 2011 Article 1. Wall Street Journal The New Cold War Bill Spindle and Margaret Coker Article 2. The New York Post The storm in Syria Amir Taheri Article 3. The American Interest Political Order in Egypt Francis Fukuyama Article 4. NYT The Budget Debate, Revealed Rich...

… possible ground incursion. But both Bibi and I knew we were going to avoid that if at all possible, and we did. Though there were inevitable civilian casualties, most of the Palestinians killed were Hamas fighters and leaders, including not just Jabari but the head of Hamas’s ro...

6 for the fall of the regime. The president is now fighting for his political life and for that of the regime put in place in 1970 by his father, the late President Hafez al-Assad. Forty-one years in power The rule of the Assads, father and son, has now lasted 41 years, a scor...

including a kindergarten teacher, in Jerusalem. On the morning of May 24, 1992, a 15-year-old Israeli schoolgirl named Helena Rapp was on her way to catch the bus to school south of Tel Aviv, when another Gazan stabbed her to death. To the extent Israelis were looking for someone...

…s continued to stare him down, as though waiting for Bannon to show more of his cards. “Really,” Bannon said. “He’s on the program. It’s his program.” Pivoting from Trump himself, Bannon plunged on with the Trump agenda. “Day one we’re moving the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem. Netan...

/ BARAK / 144 was off the agenda. The diplomatic process with the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. Du...

…a cluster of wood-and-tarpaper huts amid a few orange groves and vegetable fields and chicken coops. It was just across the road from an Arab village named Wadi Khawaret, which disappeared, with the establishment of the State of Israel, when I was six years old. As Prime Ministe...

…rom US-led international condemnation of his invasion by threatening Israel. He said “all issues of occupation” were on the table — the West Bank and Gaza, the Golan Heights, and Lebanon — and vowed to “let our fire eat half of Israel” in a future war. And we could not assume thi...