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responsibility to support the other. With President Clinton looking on, I steered
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011802.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…difficult decisions” could not be evaded. Yet only weeks after I returned from Oslo, the focus did finally shift to the Syrians. President Assad suddenly signalled his willingness to resume talks without any preconditions — a message he delivered first to my British Labor Party f...

viewed Hafez al-Assad as a natural partner for peace. For years, he’d been a
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011803.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…th Israel. Amos Oz, one of our finest writers and a cultural icon for Labor Zionists, probably put it best. He said the Syrians seemed to think that “we will give them the Golan, and theyll send us a receipt by fax.” The consensus was: forget Assad. Keep the Golan. In fact, befor...

geographical lines. However, over time, these divisions must manifest
document IMAGES-011-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_031867.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… to add one consideration to our discussion of buffers, which is diplomacy. The main neighbors of Israel are Egyptians, Syrians and those who live on the east bank of Jordan. This last group is a negligible force demographically, and the interests of the Syrians and Egyptians are...

reactor near Baghdad, there was never any question that we would take any and all
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028251.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…se of urgency. Not only did we have to make sure we attacked before the fuel was on site. There was always the risk the Syrians would find out that we were aware of their nuclear facility, putting them on even higher alert. But the operational challenge was complex. We need a fai...

deal with a major conflict with the Syrians. All of this, under a tight seal of
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011875.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

/ 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...

ministers when we’d arrived in the banqueting hall. I did have a good talk with
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028131.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…towards Israel. When I returned to Israel, I found that Peres, too, wanted to restart the negotiating process with the Syrians. The effort took on fresh momentum after a meeting at Peres’s home in Jerusalem in early December, ahead of his visit to Washington for talks with Presi...

another Israeli unit broke through to the Beirut-Damascus road. On the far side
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028050.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…led off his grand plan — or at least the Lebanon part of it. Yes, we’d ended up fighting a kind of half-war against the Syrians which, though we’d won it, still left 30,000 of Assad’s men in Lebanon. And they showed no signs of leaving. Our main strategic threat north of the bord...

If only the Syrians could be brought around, presidents have believed
document IMAGES-010-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_030075.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

16 If only the Syrians could be brought around, presidents have believed for generations, life would be so much easier. The United States wasn't alone in this illusion -- the Israelis, Arabs, Europeans, and Russians felt the same way. Like the Wall Street banks, Syria was then,...

deal with a major conflict with the Syrians. All of this, under a tight seal of
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028252.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

/ 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...