/ BARAK / 116 the beginning summed up the feeling of most of the country at the end: “If you don’t win, you lose... Hizbollah survived. It won the war.” Without the botched handling of the war, I might well have remained a mere member of the Labor Party and a private citizen. B...
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I’d been impressed by President Bush’s political acumen in assembling an international coalition including the key Arab states. Through Unit 8200 in military intelligence, we would only very occasionally get verbatim transcripts of his conversations as he brought first the Saudis...
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young Likud politicians, Dan Meridor and Ehud Olmert, with whom I had become friendly. They, like me, were concerned about undermining the Americans’ military and diplomatic coalition. Shamir mostly listened, until very near the end. He then asked Dan Meridor, Misha and me to jo...
/ BARAK / 117 reactor near Baghdad, there was never any question that we would take any and all possible measures to prevent Syria from getting a nuclear weapon. An immutable, core assumption in Israel’s security strategy was the need to retain our ability to deter, and if neces...
/ BARAK / 120 capable to taking over Gaza. But what then, I asked. Unless we were prepared to resume open-ended Israeli control, we’d be left with no one to run Gaza afterwards. The obvious candidate, Egypt, was even less interested than we were in assuming responsibility for th...
/ BARAK / 131 whether that would even be possible to strike before the Iranians entered their “zone of immunity” — the point at which the amount of damage we could do to their nuclear program would be too negligible to be worth the operational, political and diplomatic risks fro...
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...
/ BARAK / 118 deal with a major conflict with the Syrians. All of this, under a tight seal of secrecy. Finally, in early September 2007, everything was in place. Olmert briefed the cabinet, and secured the ministers’ approval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that...
the start. A number of others managed to escape when the bus was stopped. But several dozen remained inside. I was in Europe at the time, on one of my periodic trips to discuss Middle East issues with a fellow intelligence chief. Yet an aide called me with the news. I was severa...
/ 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...
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emergency cabinet meeting the next day. His adviser on terrorism, Gideon Machanaimi, was someone I knew well. When the cabinet convened, he pointed out to the ministers that the London terrorists were from a fringe Palestinian group led by Abu Nidal. Far from being an ally of Ara...
invasion had the effect of persuading Washington to send Philip Habib back into the diplomatic fray. With no early sign, however, of Arafat agreeing to leave, Arik now steadily tightened what amounted to a siege on west Beirut. For seven weeks in July and August, our forces pound...
Robin Solomon In a career spanning three decades in academic medicine, Robin Solomon has combined patient care, clinical research, philanthropy and business development expertise to build strategic alliances, brand recognition and revenue. In evolving leadership roles at The Mou...