Results for “Motta”

…ambolic way in which we’d organized our attacks on the Chinese Farm. That was part of the reason for my reluctance when Motta told me he wanted me to take Uzi’s 162 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011633

…can help, just a few miles over the Negev border. But as for the rest, I saw no reason not to give it back. As I’d told Motta after the 1973 war, I'd long believed Israel had lost sight of the original reason we’d held onto the Sinai after 1967. It was supposed to be a huge, sand...

…ently. As we were waiting to board, I phoned Uzi Dayan and asked him to meet me at Lod the next morning. Then I called Motta again. “Ehud,” he said, with no trace of irony, “it is an extremely serious war. Syrian tanks are getting close to the outer fences of Nafakh” — our main...

…ng the hostages out. Dan said yes. Rabin turned to me next. I agreed: we had a plan, and we felt we could make it work. Motta was a bit more hesitant. He suggested we couldn’t know for sure until we’d finished testing key parts of the operation. But for Rabin, it seemed to me Dan...

…can help, just a few miles over the Negev border. But as for the rest, I saw no reason not to give it back. As I’d told Motta after the 1973 war, I'd long believed Israel had lost sight of the original reason we’d held onto the Sinai after 1967. It was supposed to be a huge, sand...

…ently. As we were waiting to board, I phoned Uzi Dayan and asked him to meet me at Lod the next morning. Then I called Motta again. “Ehud,” he said, with no trace of irony, “it is an extremely serious war. Syrian tanks are getting close to the outer fences of Nafakh” — our main...

…k of life inside him. I couldn’t raise Kuti by radio, so I used the landline in the airport director’s office to phone Motta. “Yoni is dead,” I told him. “Are you sure?” he asked. I said: “Yes. P’ve seen him.” Before the transport planes began leaving for Israel, I made anothe...