Rabin’s closest aide, whom I knew well, was aware that Unit 8200 had intercepts that laid bare the details, and left no doubt the murderers were from a PLO group. He called and asked me to appear on a weekly television interview program called Moked. It was hosted by Nissim Misha...
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should, offer in search of a true peace with the Palestinians. I was the one who would be blamed by the inevitable critics, whether for going too far or not far enough, or simply for the fact the deal had eluded us. I knew the drill: the same thing had happened when I had come ta...
the FSA attacked the headquarters of the Air Force Intelligence Agency at Harasta near the capital Damascus. Since Hafez al-Assad
/ BARAK / 55 Walking with the President in Lisbon’s spring sunshine, I tried to summon up an image that would bring both of us back to the starkly different reality of our conflict with the Palestinians. Only two weeks earlier, Arafat’s own police force, with weapons we had give...
/ BARAK / 3 I’d met President Clinton briefly once before, when he received Syrian chief-of- staff Hikmat Shehabi and me after our Blair House talks in 1994. But the Sharm conference provided my first opportunity to spend time with him face-to-face. When Peres and our delegation...
3 slow and often costly business. This is one of the particular grievances that have powered the protest movement, though certainly the ripples of the successful Egyptian and Tunisian uprisings played a hand. The government, to put it bluntly, responded poorly. Troops in Daraa f...
OUP CORRECTED PROOF - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi XXXvili The Crooked Course Resolution at the Khartoum Summit, which is referred to as the “Three Noes Docu- ment” due to its clause that states: “no peace with Israel, no recognition of Israel, no negotiations with it”. On 6 October 1...
/ BARAK / 99 By the end of November, I believed that the chances of a peace agreement with Arafat were so microscopic as to border on non-existent, and that my own prospects for retaining sufficient support to be an effective Prime Minister much beyond Clinton’s departure were n...
party politics. But we talked at length about Israel’s immediate security concerns, as well as the country’s longer-term challenges in finding its place in more stable, peaceful Middle East. How, over time, we might manage to extricate ourselves from the escalating violence with...
/ BARAK / 2 cabinet meeting the day before, by reviving an idea I’d supported under Rabin: to build a security fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it...
B At the time of writing, Bashar still seems to have a chance, if a slim one, of stabilising the situation and perhaps earning a further spell in power -- but only if he calls a halt to the killing of protesters and takes the lead of the reform movement, and in effect carries ou...
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...
…Works Washington,” Salon, December 8, 2011, http://www.salon.com/2011/12/08/how_bahrain works washington/; Akbar Shahid Ahmed, “How Wealthy Arab Gulf States Shape the Washington Influence Game,” Huffington Post, September 2, 2015, http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/arab-gulf-sta...
… 7931 2000 Keyword: National Theatre (National) the Oslo negotiations. “Between our peoples lies a vast ocean?’ says Ahmed Qurei, the finance minister for the PLO, in the play, just before the negotiations start. Twenty-five years on, that ocean seems as vast as ever. Oslois...
…ad arrested and jailed in 1989. “The group from Hamas kidnapped me,” he said. “They are demanding the release of Sheikh Ahmed Yassin and another 200 people from Israeli prison. If their demands are not met, they will execute me on Friday at 8 pm.” As soon as we got word he was m...