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… rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think for all of us, even Arik, the issue of who was behind the bombing was hardly the most urgent concern. The immediate danger was a revival of the kind of rampant bloodletting Lebanon...

/ BARAK / 93 The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have changed that. Even though Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a...

/ BARAK / 93 The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have changed that. Even though Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a...

…, he was the overall head of the armored corps. There were strong critics of the Bar-Lev line, but few more vocal than Arik Sharon. The very qualities that had made him the perfect choice to lead Unit 101 and its successor commando units — a natural instinct to favor bold, preem...

… rivals: Muslim militias, the PLO, other Maronite factions and, of course, the Syrians. But I think for all of us, even Arik, the issue of who was behind the bombing was hardly the most urgent concern. The immediate danger was a revival of the kind of rampant bloodletting Lebanon...

…ning for their seats, the Labor machine lacked its usual incentive put up posters, knock on doors, or get out the vote. Arik, however, benefited from the enthusiasm of Likudniks and other right-wing activists who saw an opportunity to retake control of Israel’s political agenda....

…at made me pretty certain that, at the very least, we had indeed sent the Phalangists into the camps. I tried to reach Arik, but couldn’t get through to him. I contacted Oded Shamir, the former intelligence officer who was his main liaison with the army. I told him that if the P...

one of the battalions in Arik Sharon’s brigade

barely. Arik needed a majority of the Knesset’s 120 seats to bring

battlefield commander: Arik Sharon. Begin had recently lost both

Arik now steadily tightened what amounted to a siege on west Beirut. For

that they formally removed Arik’s authority to decide on future

but Arik made it clear to both me and Raful that he was boss.

and in the weeks ahead Arik left no doubt that he

Arik’s war plan was not a response to the Katyushas. It