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…bitious Arab policy. Turkey-Syria relations have flourished in recent years as Turkey-Israel relations have grown cold. Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan and his foreign minister, Ahmet Davutoglu, have actively sought to mediate local conflicts and bring much-needed stability t...

…wment’s research in Washington and Beirut on the Middle East. Muasher served as foreign minister (2002–2004) and deputy prime minister (2004–2005) of Jordan

…s, he was smart. He was organizationally astute. He’d been a good sayeret officer. Yet as I'd said it my TV spot, being Prime Minister required much more than that. I was now an elected Knesset member. But I had gone into politics in the hope of making a difference to how Israel...

…opularize options trading while working at Donaldson Lufkin & Jenrette in New York. Died June 18. Gyula Horn, 80. The prime minister of Hungary from 1994 to 1998, who as foreign minister in 1989 helped trigger events that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall. Died June 19. James...

…obviously denounce the idea of giving up the Golan Heights, even though Bibi had been ready to do just that when he was Prime Minister. But even on the left, there was little enthusiasm for returning the Golan. There were far fewer Israeli settlers there than on the West Bank, no...

…people have shown they are open to great adventures that serve development, hence peace. Jean Pierre Raffarin is former prime minister of France and president of the Senate’s Foreign Affairs, Military and Defense Commission, and Xu Gai is his advisor on China affairs. CONTACT US...

… finding replacements who were sufficiently experienced, but did not bear responsibility for the errors of the war. For Prime Minister, the choice fell on Yitzhak Rabin. He had strong military credentials, of course. But he had left the army and entered politics, and had been out...

…alk. Politics. Strategy. Israel. The PLO. The surrounding Arab states. And the wider world. Many years before I became Prime Minister, I gave a lecture at a memorial meeting for an Israeli academic. Not many people were there. I doubt even they remember it. But I do, because wha...

…icans. Almost all his experience in public life — as a military officer, ambassador to Washington, Defense Minister and Prime Minister — had coincided with Republican administrations. The irony was that he would go on to forge a much closer relationship with President Clinton tha...

… After we took off, I used the on- board phone facility and, with a swipe of a credit card, was soon on the line to the Prime Minister. Since the exchange was in Hebrew, I’m fairly sure anyone overhearing me had no idea what we were talking about. “I need you to come back as soon...

…alk. Politics. Strategy. Israel. The PLO. The surrounding Arab states. And the wider world. Many years before I became Prime Minister, I gave a lecture at a memorial meeting for an Israeli academic. Not many people were there. I doubt even they remember it. But I do, because wha...

… portrayed as a military novice who’d gone into battle without understanding the wartime role and responsibilities of a Prime Minister. Halutz’s “excess of charisma” was held responsible for keeping ministers, and military officers as well, from questioning his judgement or press...

… yet attacked, and frustrated with me as well. We held dozens of meetings, sometimes two or three a day, chaired by the Prime Minister, sometimes by me as Defense Minister, or by the chief of staff or service commanders. Invariably, I began my remarks by saying: “We have to destr...

…eaves next April, we want you to replace him as chief-of-staff.” Briefly and unusually tongue-tied, I said: “Thank you, Prime Minister’. The news was made public the next morning. A few days later, it was ratified by the government. There was only one vote against, from a former...

…f the Muslim Brotherhood, which protested what it considered to be a biased ballot. It remains unclear who will succeed Prime Minister Abdullah Ensur (who submitted his resignation to King Abdullah on January 29"), although analysts and commentators consider it likely that a numb...