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…s he really was: a brave man, an extraordinary fighter and officer. But also a man sometimes feeling torn inside, and alone. I began with words of ancient rabbinic wisdom about the path which all of us travel from birth to death, and to whatever comes after. The quotation I chos...

…notebook in which I’d jot down thoughts on things I thought that the Israeli military, and I as an officer, could have done better: errors, oversights, and how we might fix them. In the weeks before becoming ramatkal, I'd filled dozens of pages on issues large and small I hoped t...

and which is riddled with hatred for one another. Left and right. Jews and Arabs. Secular and religious. Rich and poor. Center and periphery. Old and new. This is dangerous. The late Tunisian President Bourguiba (and later on Sadat in his debates with Assad just before the peace...

…ts at denial to finally clearly focus on the threat faced. Part of the Inner Jihad is to reach that Turnaround Moment sooner rather than later. FP: You suggest that “mirroring” should be used as part of our arsenal. Tell us about it. Siegel: Mirroring is a literal approach to t...

…Torah Judaism leader why he’d seemed happy when Likud had waved it through, he replied: “Past sins cannot pardon future ones.” Eli Suissa, one of the Shas ministers in the cabinet, took his side, saying: “Every hour is good for the keeping of Shabbat.” Most other ministers agreed...

…, mini-rehearsals. They include praying in tongues as the Spirit moves them like Peter, John, James and the rest of the one hundred and twenty in the upper room on the day of Pentecost. Those of us with two or more available cable religious networks can, on any given Sunday morn...

…his points. And he couldn’t stand Bibi. Unlike the 1996 debate, this time there was a knock-out blow, and Bibi was the one left on the canvas. It was a bit like Senator Lloyd Bentsen’s killer riposte when Republic vice-presidential candidate Dan Quayle compared himself to John F...

… and against Iran's hegemonic and nuclear intentions. ¢ The challenge for us is based on there being, apparently, only one way to achieve that; and the upcoming elections in Israel force us to put it on hold for a few months. ¢ And the way to do it is this: a strong, self-confi...

…tate. | wanted to try to build bridges between the secular and religious as well. My hope was to begin to recreate the “One Israel” of my youth. In terms of policy, I believed my primary job would be deliver “security and peace” — in that order. I declared my commitment to conti...

…is time, Arafat didn’t take notes as we spoke. The mood was friendly. We talked about a whole range of issues. With ony one exception: what was really happening, or what should happen, in the summit talks. I found the exercise disappointing as a result. But Yossi Ginossar assured...

…ur playing any significant part. The fact that my own role was slightly less peripheral was due to Avraham Arnan. He phoned me almost as soon as we’d got news of the Israeli air victory, and told me he had been told to take a few men from the sayeret across the southern border....

…nto our planning, we conducted a series of run-throughs in which we simulated attaching the intercept to Israel’s telephone network in the south, not far from the camp where I’d done my fironut. Though it all seemed to go as planned, the next morning in rained heavily. Within hou...

…lingly drifting away from the norms of democracy — as a preliminary step towards institutionalized discrimination. And one has to wonder: what was wrong with what we had until this point? What's wrong with the "Declaration of Independence"? Who needs this? And why? ¢ Churchill...

… 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... A short time...

…nt of 1916) are compiled in this book. It provides an annotated and chronological overview of attempts to make peace in one of the most difficult and protracted conflicts in the world, and it includes a full set of accompanying maps specially made for this edition. The sheer vol...