/ BARAK / 94 end of the day, dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured. Five Palestinians lay dead. Though the media almost instantly labelled it a new “intifada”, this one was very different. It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone- throwing youths con...
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… inertia. As one awaits this tortuous Godot, one might recall a forecast of a bomb by 1999 (Shimon Peres) or 2004 (Ehud Barak), or Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s talk of “a messianic apocalyptic cult controlling atomic bombs,” or my friend Jeffrey Goldberg’s allusion in The...
…middle east. . It is the opening of the play on broadway describing the secret negotiations with clinton and arafat and barak. . He will be in europe with me this week, Bill Burns and he go way back. He will meet you in june or earlier if you come to our may dinner may 5. Sender:...
/ BARAK / 93 The request that had come across my desk a few days earlier need not have changed that. Even though Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a...
/ BARAK / 87 a young boy and seeing religious Jews walking through the streets of the Old City. I don’t know whether those stories were true. But the point was that while he had no problem with Jews in their long coats and black hats praying in the holy city, Jews exercising aut...
/ BARAK / 121 But both Olmert and Tzipi soon fell prey to the same self-defeating temptation that had worried me during the meandering war against Hizbollah. Our ground incursion began a few days into the operation. The intention was to stay for a few more days and then, respond...
…es, David Koch, Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, | j Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, and former Israeli prime minister 4 Ehud Barak among them. S) 4 This was intriguing, if not at all damning. Epstein made a i E habit of collecting such information for future use. But informa- 4 : i t...
/ BARAK / 140 program back by years. And even if the Iranians knew it was coming, they’d be able to do nothing to stop it. “Our problem, Mr, President,” I said, “is that we can’t be sure our friend will show up. Since Iran is already very nearly in a zone of immunity against an...
/ BARAK / 114 Labor leadership contest. “Shalom, Ehud,” he said when I answered the phone and, without small talk or preliminaries, asked me: “What do you think we should do?” I said I couldn’t offer specific suggestions. “It’s a detail-related question, and I don’t know the de...
/ BARAK / 95 Chirac, but the understanding was that Madeleine would be in charge. Far from showing any willingness to end the violence, Arafat at first simply lied. He said the Palestinian violence was in response to an unprovoked assault by Israeli troops, and demanded an inter...
/ BARAK / 89 question of Jerusalem — than any Israeli leader in the search for peace. Even before I'd left for Camp David, the defections from our coalition meant we’d been left with only 42 seats in the Knesset, nineteen short of a majority. Amid the first, sketchy media report...
/ BARAK / 133 the heads of military intelligence and Mossad, to sign off on the operational viability of the plan. That was what now ended any prospect of military action, at least for a few months. Bibi, Lieberman and I withdrew into a side room to talk with the chief of staff...
/ BARAK / 98 in legal and diplomatic terms, null and void. The package Arafat had ultimately rejected had not even been presented by me. It was an American proposal. Besides, it was obvious no serious negotiations were going to happen anyway for the foreseeable future. Arik, how...
/ BARAK / 84 When I learned what was happening, I told my negotiators they were not to hold any further formal meetings during the four days Clinton would be away. Dennis’s initial response was frustration. Madeleine Albrights’s was fury. They both made no secret of their view t...
/ BARAK / 66 Bet technician. I assumed that, one way or another, the Americans could listen in, but was fairly confident we were beyond the electronic earshot of the Palestinians. I kept myself fully informed of, but at a distance from, the specific work of our five negotiating...