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…s -- Internet and telephone -- were shuttered to prevent the seepage of unrest. To make matters worse, Damascus blamed Israeli provocateurs, rebel forces, and shady foreign agents for the bloodshed -- anyone but its own forces. Civilian deaths at the hands of security forces the...

… November 1959, three months short of my eighteenth birthday. Military service was a near-universal rite of passage for Israeli teenagers. For children of the kibbutz, it held even greater significance. Now that we had a country, the kibbutzniks’ role as the avant-garde in taming...

…nhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistence that Camp David was an Israeli “trap”, they were convinced that the paper had Israel’s fingerprints all over it. That wasn’t true. The one change we’d insisted on was because it misre...

…el and the Palestinians. For the first time, the Palestinians had a prime minister who was respected and admired by the Israelis, because he did not come from the same terrorist background as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Unlike his ideological comrades who insisted on "libera...

…ed films, which included Sony Classic’s “In Darkness” from Poland, "Footnote" from Israel and "A Separation" from Iran. Israeli and Iranian governments from the other side of the world monitored their directors as the Sony boys kept the peace. Michael and Tom Bernard invited me...

…on an even greater power and poignancy after the mass murder of the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Even for many Israelis nowadays, the all-consuming collectivism of life on an early kibbutz, and the physical challenges, are hard to imagine. Among the few dozen families in...

…srael against condemnations and sanctions has proven the council's ineffectiveness in dealing objectively with the Arab-Israeli conflict. At the General Assembly, each state has an equal voting right, thus lending legitimacy to passed resolutions. In its deliberations, the Assem...

…and its greatest failure? SE: The fact that, two decades after Oslo, we are still a nation under occupation shows that Israeli governments did derail it. The interim accords were not supposed to last for 20 years but only five. After that, we were going to enjoy freedom and sove...

… are a few points I found to be of greatest relevance as we sift through this: ** The US and Europe appear to take the Israeli attack threat seriously. Economic recoveries are just beginning to form in both regions, and there are elections coming up, so for politicians to ratch...

…umping American hard power in Iraq. More recently, three Iranian intelligence agents who unsuccessfully tried to kill Israeli government officials in Bangkok this past February photographed themselves at a bar in the beach resort of Pattaya with local "escorts." When I asked th...

…gger, Dustin Hoff- man, Ralph Fiennes, David Koch, Ted Kennedy, Donald Trump, Bill Richardson, Bill Clinton, and former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak among them. This was intriguing, if not at all damning. Epstein made a habit of collecting such information for future use. B...

…nge international financial support for them — Abu Mazen insisted that nothing could be discussed until without a prior Israeli acceptance of the “principle of the right of return.” On Jerusalem, according to Gilead Sher, the President didn’t even try to find common ground on the...

… my own role was slightly less peripheral was due to Avraham Arnan. He phoned me almost as soon as we’d got news of the Israeli air victory, and told me he had been told to take a few men from the sayeret across the southern border. Our assignment was to complete our failed attem...

Presidential Press Bulletin 20 April, 2011 Aricle 1. |The Cairo Review of Global Affairs The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Now William B. Quandt Article 2. Foreign Policy The United States' heavy-handed efforts to help Israel at the U.N. Colum Lynch Article 3. | The Washingt...

…e they’re not entirely there with you. They collect interesting ‘friends’. fe p> . Kindness.... Read More » I heard Israeli satellites orbit Earth in the opposite direction due to various launch restrictions. Does the IDF get any advantages from this? re a ismecsacs Maayan...