Results for “Rabin”

…let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from 1974 to 1977. Today Peres is widely respected as the architect of the Oslo Accord of 1993, achieved while he was Foreign Minister. It was the first p...

… asked whether there indeed was a military option with a reasonable prospect of getting 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...

…ndraising dinner that same night for the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial. A few hours before leaving, however, I met with Rabin. We’d found a 15-minute window in his schedule, but we ended up talking for an hour. He said he knew that, in some ways, the difficulties surrounding the...

…called Tel Rumeida, had been set up without government approval in 1984. As part of the response to Goldstein killings, Rabin was thinking of closing it down. That prompted a number of right-wing rabbis to issue a formal religious ruling against any such action. Rabin called me i...

…e stipulation of most relevance to me was that one man would be the Defence Minister throughout the four years: Yitzhak Rabin. My relationship with Rabin went back much further than with Misha. I'd first met him when I was a sayeret soldier. I’d interacted with him more as sayer...

…ish underground, I was determined to ensure they remained within the boundaries of the law. A few days later, I called Rabin’s aide and asked to see the Defense Minister, and was told to come see him after Saturday lunch at his home. When I arrived, Rabin got right down to busin...

… the way for us to do both, without anyone asking too many questions. The Mossad men took the lead in arranging to get Rabin’s questions answered. They contacted a pilot they knew. The pilot flew to Entebbe early on Saturday morning, circled, and, after he was cleared to land, c...

… to disentangle it, though I remained far from confident that anything resembling full peace would come any time soon. Rabin, and even more acutely Shimon Peres, believed it was important to press ahead with the opening phase of the handover of Israeli authority mapped out by Os...

…to ratify the Gaza- Jericho plan. The ministers seemed attentive as I ran through the security concerns I’d raised with Rabin, even nodding when I compared the agreement’s security provisions to “a piece of Swiss cheese, only with more holes.” But then I said that I wanted to say...

…re we left, Nava phoned again, almost sputtering in fury. She told me that she’d just received a call from Aliza Goren, Rabin’s media spokesperson. “Does Ehud know about the Yediot story?” she’d asked. When Nava said yes, Aliza told her: “It is important that Ehud knows that we a...

…s ceremony on the the astonishing, White House lawn in September behind-the-scenes negotiations that 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli resulted in the historic Oslo Accords prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, in 1993, won a Tony for Best Play on the PLO chairman, shaking hands...

…g Hizbollah to cease fire. I did believe they’d be ready to engage with American efforts to stop the fighting, and that Rabin and the government could then secure terms we were prepared to accept. On July 25, we began our heaviest air strikes since 1982. Far from producing a sig...

…n especially gruesome Palestinian terror attack. Even with Arafat now more than a thousand miles away in Tunis, much of Rabin’s focus was taken up in responding to, or trying to preempt, Palestinian terrorism. The issue was especially sensitive politically in the wake of a war in...

…Saeb Erekat: Though I was not the chief negotiator at that moment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, including myself, feel that peace was possible. There was significant progress in all tracks until Rabin's...

around the dinner table at Rabin’s apartment in Tel Aviv.