Results for “Shimon Peres”

…among his PLO loyalists, many of whom believe he was poisoned by Mossad, the Israeli intelligence service. By the time Shimon Peres, the Nobel Prize-winning prime minister of Israel who helped resolve many of the more intangible issues, died more peacefully aged 93 in 2016, he h...

…. To my amusement, if not altogether to my surprise, I got word that Bibi was putting out separate political feelers to Shimon Peres. But before long, it became clear there was a specific political motivation behind his approaching me. It was indeed the peace process. But it wasn...

…. To my amusement, if not altogether to my surprise, I got word that Bibi was putting out separate political feelers to Shimon Peres. But before long, it became clear there was a specific political motivation behind his approaching me. It was indeed the peace process. But it wasn...

….” But 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...

whom he called “Shimon’s poodle’. And he deeply distrusted

Shimon seemed to convey the sense that merely being in the

developed by Shimon Ullman and others. Makes sense

I was struck that Shimon seemed resigned to the election defeat

by what he’d said. Shimon was now nearly 73. He’d had a life in our

having let Shimon know through Giora and then phoning

Shimon and I held a series of late-night

Shimon said: “OK. So probably I made a mistake.”

an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous

on Shimon. But I added: “It seems a bit too good to be true.”

…hesiveness, until and unless conditions allowed a for a serious new effort for a final peace deal. I was heartened when Shimon led Labor back into Arik’s coalition at the start of 2005 to ensure he’d have the support necessary to go through with the Gaza withdrawal. And while I d...