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the secretary-general of the party and a longtime Peres ally

/ BARAK / 22 struck by how different the approach was from our campaign for Peres. As I filled my notebook with the details, Philip added a final bit of advice. “If you want to win, have it run by the best professionals you can find. Not politicians. They always have personal ag...

sometimes also including Peres. Almost everyone around the table was

a friend of Shimon Peres whom I had got to know and like. But

of the Golan. Peres now focused on clarifying

Peres called us into a small room in the

1996. Yet that would turn out not to be the end of Peres’s

not to try to score political points –Peres’s reelection campaign seemed

I joined other ministers and party officials with Peres

like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984

I’d learned of cases where Peres volunteers outside polling

…in felt comfortable — a counterpoint, I suspect, to the old Labor Party rival whom he had made Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres. Though the two men had grown to respect each another over the years, Rabin neither trusted, nor much liked, Shimon. In fact, though Peres’s support insid...

…headquarters in the south Lebanese city of Tyre, killing more than 60 people. Yet the election ended up as a near-tie. Peres did lead Labor back into top spot for the first time since Begin’s victory in 1977. But he got only 44 seats, to the Likud’s 41. After weeks of horse-trad...

…nd of frankness and openness I would find in most of the one-on- one meetings I went on to have with foreign leaders as Peres’s Foreign Minister. Maybe he did it just as a kind of aide-memoire. But certainly in later meetings I had with him, it did have the effect to making me ch...

…we had a primary responsibility to protect our citizens. I was now working with a new Israeli government. After Shimon Peres tried and failed to topple the unity coalition in the spring of 1990, Shamir had formed a Likud-led government shorn of both Peres and Rabin. Misha Arens...