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…abin. He had strong military credentials, of course. But he had left the army and entered politics, and had been out of Israel for several years as Israel’s ambassador to Washington. He had joined Golda’s government only weeks before the war, in the relatively minor role of Minis...

party politics. But we talked at length about Israel’s immediate security concerns, as well as the country’s longer-term challenges in finding its place in more stable, peaceful Middle East. How, over time, we might manage to extricate ourselves from the escalating violence with...

… developing. It could even send a nuclear device in a container smuggled on board a commercial vessel docking in one of Israel’s ports. While few in Israel disputed the seriousness of the threat, a number of top political and military figures had deep misgivings about military a...

… Syrian response, but Syrian notice. The reactor was destroyed. Although even today the exact details remain subject to Israel’s military secrecy regulations, accounts published abroad in the weeks and months that followed painted a surprisingly accurate picture, including the pi...

…t only a reminder of how far we still had to go, however. It occurred during a dry run for an operation unlike any that Israel had ever considered. For that and other reasons, it would erupt into a major political controversy. Though the reason for the exercise was meant to have...

… Syrian response, but Syrian notice. The reactor was destroyed. Although even today the exact details remain subject to Israel’s military secrecy regulations, accounts published abroad in the weeks and months that followed painted a surprisingly accurate picture, including the pi...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

… -- Three Middle Eastern countries have been conspicuous for their stability in the storm. They are Turkey, Lebanon and Israel. An odd mix, you might say, but they have in common that they are places where people vote. Democracy is a messy all-or-nothing business. That’s why I l...

…e unrest has turned into an economic headache for Egypt's new military rulers: The pipeline that supplies AQ percent of Israel's natural gas has been bombed five times since the revolution, halting the country's natural gas exports. But more importantly, Sinai has become a breedi...

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…the insistence on transporting basic aid — food and cement — when it is no longer needed. Still others note the way the Israeli authorities portray the organizers as violent Islamists when most are middle-aged European pacifists. Almost everything about the flotilla stuck in Gre...

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…say to the “single child.” His aides sniggered, but Peres didn’t bat an eyelid: “Just what my mentor, David Ben-Gurion (Israel’s first Prime Minister) told me: when the security of Israel is laid on one side of the scales, and everything else on the other side, security tips the...

…ident Obama on this. While Bibi liked to portray him variously as weak, naive or tone-deaf to interests and security of Israel, I knew from our previous meetings that he was none of these things. Yet I did, ina deliberately non-didactic way, raise the issue of our different persp...