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…ich the king had in Britain. A few weeks before the war, I boarded a private jet to London along with Halevy and Prime Minister Shamir. Shamir had never met the king before and nor, of course, had I. But we didn’t talk about the forthcoming meeting on the five-hour flight. Inste...

…An Israeli TV program two decades later unearthed a summary of the discussion, written by his military aide. “The Prime Minister approves the target... This is an operation we should go for when the probability of success is very high,” it said. “Thus, we have to build the operat...

…ry of State Condoleezza Rice, former President Bill Clinton, Senator George Mitchell, Al Gore, Kofi Annan, former Prime Minister Tony Blair, the Dalai Lama, Bill Gates, George Soros, Stephen Hawking, Sir Paul McCartney, Mick Jaggar and Salman Rushdie. We are a programme that car...

…awaits this tortuous Godot, one might recall a forecast of a bomb by 1999 (Shimon Peres) or 2004 (Ehud Barak), or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk of “a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs,” or my friend Jeffrey Goldberg’s allusion in The Atlantic last yea...

…gist, Hillary Clinton for President 2008. Author, Microtrends. Fmr pollster to President Clinton. Fmr pollster to Prime Minister Tony Blair. *Lois Quam*— Executive Director, Global Health Initiative — part of the State Department and she reports directly to Secretary Clinton. Fm...

…ent would hold: that we remained “in control of the situation.” We did fee/ in control for the first few days. Defense Minister Rabin was away in Washington on an official visit. When his office asked us whether he should fly back, we said there was no need. But on his return, w...

…’m sure he understood the argument, and he may even have agreed. But when Katyushas next fell on northern Israel, he as Minister of Defense, not I, would be the one in the political firing line. Far from straining our relations, our frank exchanges on Lebanon seemed to build fur...

…ian markets received a boost from the announcement of the proposed recreational cannabis legislation in Canada by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and, more recently, from Constellation Brands’ investment in Canopy Growth. © 2017 Ackrell Capital, LLC | Member FINRA/SIPC 127 HOUSE_...

…cks. To the extent there was any political gain, it was to burnish Tzipi Livni’s credentials as a tough potential Prime Minister ahead of the election. That was not her intent. Of all the politicians I’ve known, she is among the least interested in such games, especially with liv...

…lso been resisting Israeli efforts to make an early, public show of friendship, such as an official visit to meet Prime Minister Begin. But there was an undisguised hope that this was just a brief political hiatus, for appearance’s sake, and that before too long Lebanon would bec...

… Andrew and Sarah Ferguson, Donald Trump, Sen. John Kerry, various members of the Kennedy clan and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, among many others. The British press has been having a field day digging up new details about Epstein’s friendship with Prince Andrew. Virg...

…became increasingly convinced in the weeks that followed that Begin’s second government, with Arik now moved to defense minister, would further put the brakes on any follow-up negotiations for a deal with the Palestinians. I did not yet know that Arik, in particular, had a far mo...

…man, Ralph Fiennes, David Koch, Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, | j Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, and former Israeli prime minister 4 Ehud Barak among them. S) 4 This was intriguing, if not at all damning. Epstein made a i E habit of collecting such information for future use. But...

…sed opportunity? Saeb Erekat: Though I was not the chief negotiator at that moment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, including myself, feel that peace was possible. There was significant progress in all tr...

…up taking what seemed to me the only realistic option. In January 2011, I left the Labor Party. With three other of our ministers in the government — who were, of course, aware of the ongoing Iran discussions — I set up a new “centrist, Zionist” party called Ha’Atzmaut, or Indepe...