/ BARAK / 15 By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises about quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, abo...
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Unfunded Entitlement (Medicare + Social Security) + Underfunded Entitlement Expenditures (Medicaid) = Among Largest Long-Term Liabilities on USA Inc.'s Balance Sheet USA Balance Sheet Liabilities Composition, F2010 Unfunded Medicaid* Medicare $35.3T Unfunded $22.8T All se Vete...
Matching Expenses & Revenue: Imperatives & Constraints There are many constraints to making changes — ~90 million citizens (29% of Americans)’ have grown accustomed to entitlement programs - 47MM on Medicaid, 45MM on Medicare, and 51MM on Social Security, and many of them vote...
…ult part. The withdrawal had not just a military aim, but a critical political one: to denude Hizbollah, with full international support, of its “occupation” fig-leaf for targeting and terrorizing the towns and villages of northern Israel. Shaul and a number of other generals in...
177 that could be hacked into from the outside. It will be recalled that the NSA threat officer had cited these failures in his 1996 report on NSA vulnerability. He also said that efforts of the Russian Intelligence Services to use false flag recruitments provided the KGB with “...
92 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS evidently set off alarm bells at Booz Allen and the NSA. Snowden expressed anger to the journalists in the room at the NSA’s intru- sions on the privacy of his girlfriend. Snowden also performed his security procedures on camera, including stuf...
votes: one for a party list and one for a directly elected Prime Minister. This would be a personal test, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even ha...
150 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS exclusive alternatives. The point is to assure that any alternative that fits the relevant facts, no matter how implausible it may initially seem to be, is not neglected. One of the most vexing problems that had to be explained by these scenar...
activities. The Majlis al-Shura considers all elements of the group's activities, including its political and military wings, as part of one holistic entity. According to Hezbollah's top officials, this unity of purpose among the group's diverse activities is essential to its su...
185 adversary services, which also had the home court advantage, from stepping in. He also gave adversaries an ample, if not wholly irresistible reason, to enter the game by saying that he had access to NSA’s sources in China. How could they resist such a prize? As confidant a...
6 At HQME ithin the first weeks of his presidency a theory emerged among Trump’s friends WV that he was not acting presidential, or, really, in any way taking into account his new status or restraining his behavior—from early morning tweets, to his refusal to follow scripted re...
Rabin, too, puffing furiously on his cigarette. When the erect figure of Sadat emerged, there was spontaneous applause, and a serenade from Israeli army trumpeters. Even before Sadat’s Knesset address the next day, I understood that his visit, his willingness to make the first,...
This book is only in part the story of my life — a life that, from my beginnings as a kibbutz boy in pre-state Palestine, has been intimately entwined with the infancy and adolescence and, now, the increasingly troubled middle age of the State of Israel. Still less is it only a...
…nxious to preserve the progress he’d worked so closely with Yitzhak to achieve, organized an unprecedented show of international condemnation of the terror attacks. With Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, he co-chaired a “Summit of Peacemakers” in Sharm al- Sheikh with the participation not...
This book is only in part the story of my life — a life that, from my beginnings as a kibbutz boy in pre-state Palestine, has been intimately entwined with the infancy and adolescence and, now, the increasingly troubled middle age of the State of Israel. Still less is it only a...