Results for “Shamir”

…. Further complicating the situation was the fact the settlers enjoyed the support of key Likud members in the cabinet: Shamir, who was about to take his turn as Prime Minister in October 1986; Misha, now a minister without portfolio; and most of all Arik Sharon. In an astonishin...

…se, to kill all the terrorists. I’m equally convinced there was a tacit assumption on the ground that Misha’s view, and Shamir’s as well, was that this would be no bad thing. Yet by the summer of 1984, Shamir and Arens appeared in danger of losing their jobs. Israel’s next elect...

…ts, to the Likud’s 41. After weeks of horse-trading with smaller parties, he could not form a government. Neither could Shamir. The result, for the first time in peacetime, was a national-unity coalition, including both main parties. Peres would be Prime Minister for the first tw...

…tributing the gas masks and preparations for a possible military operation. So when I got a call asking me to report to Shamir’s office in Jerusalem, I assumed he wanted to talk about Iraq. “How are things?” he asked. But when I began by filling him in on the plans to distribute...

…with a new Israeli government. After Shimon Peres tried and failed to topple the unity coalition in the spring of 1990, Shamir had formed a Likud-led government shorn of both Peres and Rabin. Misha Arens was again Minister of Defense. I began preparing regular, fortnightly report...

…inian violence. Though he spoke for barely 10 minutes, it was the last speaker who left the deepest impression. Shimon Shamir, a professor at Tel Aviv University, began by emphasizing he was not an expert in riot control. Finding a response to the violence was something we were...

…d inherited a peace process, put in motion by the Bush Administration after the Gulf War. But since both Prime Minister Shamir and our Arab enemies had reasons of procedure, politics or principle to resist the talks, merely getting them off the ground had required the same combin...

…hand weakly in response, as if to say none of it mattered. His successor, in October 1983, was Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Ideologically, he was cut from the same cloth: an advocate from the 1940s of securing a Jewish state in all of Palestine, by whatever force necessary. H...

…d 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 Phalangists were inside the camps, he had to urge Arik to...

… Dado, and Avraham Arnan. From there, we went to the Prime Minister’s office. With Dan Shomron and his wife looking on, Shamir presented me with my third star and formally made me chief of staff. For years, I'd developed the habit of carrying around a notebook in which I’d jot d...

…cts of 20 years of occupation, not only on the Palestinians but on Israeli society as well. Yet the power of Professor Shamir’s presentation lay not so much 1n its novelty as its succinctness, clarity and, above all, its timing. The rioting had already gone on for longer than an...

…sn’t sound like a farewell speech. It seems like he’s ready for the next round. He lost twice to Begin. He lost once to Shamir. And only once to Bibi. He’s not going to stop without giving it another go.” Another of Peres’s old friends, a few weeks later, urged me to press him o...

…andered ahead. We also discussed in detail how a unity government would work. We agreed it would be presented, like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984, as a cross- party response to an important challenge for the country: in this case, security and the peace process. I would be...

…ing a ministerial appointment, once even designing a grotesque system of HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029707 "rotation" with Yitzhak Shamir, so that he could be in the government. He proposed the ideal of "national unity," and greatly devalued the democratic concept of parliamentary oppositio...

… on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to present military operations for approval. I remember one occasion when an air f...