Results for “State of Israel”

…ly 45 years old: developed economically and free of the kind of existential threat we’d faced in the early years of the state. But the political divisions over the war in Lebanon, and morale-sapping need to quell the violence on the West Bank and in Gaza had further strained our...

… first spell as Prime Minister in the 1970s, it was over a violation of the Jewish Sabbath. It turned out that Israel’s state electric company had been transporting a huge steam- condensation machine from the manufacturing site near Haifa to a power plant in Ashdod. The unit was...

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… sparsely furnished Tel Aviv apartment. The first people he brought in were veterans of the Palmach’s Arab Platoon, pre-state fighters who trained themselves to pass as Arabs and gather intelligence, or stage raids, behind enemy lines. Next, he invited friends who had served in U...

Arabia and the Gulf States, Jordan, Egypt and perhaps even Turkey (which is not Arab). The focal interest is the struggle against radical Islamic terrorism and against Iran's hegemonic and nuclear intentions. ¢ The challenge for us is based on there being, apparently, only one w...

…ugh not only, the continuing disadvantage of many in the Sephardi communities who had arrived in the early years of the state. | wanted to try to build bridges between the secular and religious as well. My hope was to begin to recreate the “One Israel” of my youth. In terms of p...

… President Clinton to attend Rosh Hashanah services, this was not the first such invitation I had extended to a head of state. In 1990, I had invited Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev to join me at Rosh Hashanah services in Moscow, where I had been invited to the Kremlin to spea...

…nnot continue. Oslo succeeded in bringing back 250,000 Palestinians from the diaspora and building the capacity for our state. The international community failed though, by granting Israel an unprecedented culture of impunity that allowed them to use negotiations as a means to co...

…eace deal would be impossible if we agreed to hundreds of thousands of refugees entering Israel — in effect leaving the state created in 1948 with a Jewish minority. But when President Clinton began trying to narrow down details of a compromise resettlement package — how many ref...

…me Minister of Israel... A short time ago, I spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu and thanked him for his service to the State of Israel.” Then — with both Leah and Shimon Peres at my side — I paid tribute to “that one special person who had a unique role in our reaching this mome...

…hborhoods. But the Obama administration’s response has not grown grimmer or louder. As recently as May 6, Secretary of State Clinton was still talking about a “reform agenda” in Syria, as if Bashar al-Assad were a slightly misguided bureaucrat rather than the murderer of roughly...

…eace deal would be impossible if we agreed to hundreds of thousands of refugees entering Israel — in effect leaving the state created in 1948 with a Jewish minority. But when President Clinton began trying to narrow down details of a compromise resettlement package — how many ref...

…confirm my understanding with Clinton that the “right of return” would apply not to Israel proper, but to a Palestinian state on the West Bank and Gaza. Finally, the document said: “I understand that such an agreement constitutes an end of conflict.” After he read it, the Presid...

…n adjunct of President Nasser’s leadership role in the Arab world. Though Arafat had not yet explicitly challenged this state of affairs, his, and Fatah’s, rise after the war carried a powerful, message for the existing Arab presidents and prime ministers: their brash promises of...

… ¢ The claim that the events of the past year "prove" that Israel's vital security needs are incompatible with the "two-state solution" — is false. And I'm stating this as a professional position, not a political opinion. ¢ On the contrary — the IDF will be able to defend Israel...