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entire airport. Though I didn’t say so, I had my doubts it would work. It was a bit like the initial option for the Rue Verdun raid Dado had rejected: a classic ground assault which, in addition to eliminating any chance of surprise, obviously ran the risk of igniting a small gro...

operation. Both times, it was an operation that we, the ones who have to do it, knew could succeed. An operation on which the fate of three Israeli pilots depends. One of whom we know personally, and have worked with. Now, again, with no real reason, you’ve stopped us. I see this...

/ BARAK / 83 I packed my bags. I told Danny Yatom to inform the Americans we were leaving and to get our plane ready to take us back to Israel. I let the others in our team know that we were going. A number of them, and several of the Americans as well, urged me to reconsider. B...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu Among the public figures I have counseled is Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. I had met Bibi when he was a student in Cambridge in the early 1970’s. We got to know each other when he served in New York as Israel’s r...

/ BARAK / 27 the settlements on the West Bank. Since the fall of the Soviet Union, hundreds of thousands of Russians had also flowed into Israel. Most were Jewish in culture more than religious observance, but they were instinctively inclined to support candidates — Rabin in 199...

/ BARAK / 32 At the start of my brief remarks at the hotel podium before going to Rabin Square, I had to call for quiet when I mentioned the phone call from Bibi. “No,” I said, raising my voice to be heard above the boos, “we will not boo an incumbent Prime Minister of Israel......

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Article 1. The Weekly Standard The Illusion of Peace with Syria Elhott Abrams May 23, 2011 -- The news from Syria grows grimmer by the day— more peaceful protesters killed, ten thousand arrested in the past week, army units shelling residential neighborhoods. But the Obama a...

the Middle East's Islamists, and specifically the Muslim brotherhood, whom the Qataris view as the region's rising power. "The Qatari strategy is that the situation has changed, and we need to fend for ourselves and ensure that the regional anarchy is not going to impact us," say...

Chapter Eleven Yet despite Entebbe, the trauma of the Yom Kippur War, and the cracks it had shaken loose in Israeli society and politics, were yet to play themselves out. The hostage rescue was like a sugar rush, an intoxicating reminder that the army still had the capacity for...

/ BARAK / 77 moment in the summit. If we cou/d find common ground, he said, Israel would have achieved what had eluded it under Rabin, and even Ben-Gurion: “end of conflict, and Jerusalem recognized internationally as your capital.” I told him that the discussion with my negotia...

/ BARAK/ 51 couldn’t guarantee anything. In the months ahead I would come to understand what that meant, because it would happen again. I don’t think Arafat himself orchestrated the violence. Maybe he couldn’t have stopped it completely. But I have no doubt — nor did President C...

beaten Israeli flag and past the turnoff for Ateret, the picture is still mixed. Armin Rosen writes for and produces The Atlantic's International Channel. == Click here to Reply or Forward Why this ad? Ads — Teach English Worldwide Become an English Teacher Overseas Earn Yo...

/ BARAK / 16 talks with the Americans on the further West Bank redeployments meandered 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 cha...

and Israeli sovereignty over Jewish neighborhoods. In other words