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…conflict, it’s to thrash out their differences. al-Qaeda, so-called Islamic State, Iraq, As a journalist covering these Syria and Libya that are dominating extraordinary events for The Daily the headlines, not the peace process. Telegraph during the Nineties, I came Even as we ap...

…ericans, needed to tackle a more urgent threat. It again involved an enemy state trying to get nuclear weapons. But not Syria. The Islamic theocracy of Iran. We’d been aware for a number of years about Iranian efforts to go nuclear. The Mossad had notched up a series of successe...

… inch of territory. But we had lost tanks and planes. Israeli soldiers and pilots were being held prisoner in Egypt and Syria. Arafat’s Fatah and the other armed Palestinian groups might not present a conventional threat. Yet while I’d been with my tank company in the Sinai, they...

…ished. There are three reasons. First, the most substantial fallout from the Arab world’s recent upheaval is behind us. Syria’s Bashar al-Assad continues to fight for survival and Yemen continues to flirt with failed-state status, but the Gulf’s major oil-producing states are qui...

…ly too high. Sayeret Matkal was born three years later. Avraham was still part of the unit running low-level agents in Syria and Lebanon, but his commander reluctantly agreed to allow him to set up his new intelligence group. His initial “headquarters” was a sparsely furnished T...

…the outskirts of Tel AVIV. Israel did secure control of the entire Galilee, up to the pre-war borders with Lebanon and Syria, and of the Negev Desert in the south. The territory of our new state was about a third larger than the area proposed under the UN partition plan rejected...

…and warplanes at Incirlik Air Base, an important staging area for the U.S.- led fight against Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. At a news conference in Washington, Weingarten and Michael Miller, another Steptoe attorney, said evidence from a 2015 case financed by the Turkish gover...

…g that the toppling of one dictator thins the herd, inspires imitation, and endangers them all. This is most visible in Syria, where Russia, China, Iran, and Venezuela at various times have offered diplomatic support, loans, fuel, or direct military aid to the regime of Bashar al...

…n their plate at this stage to focus on Iraq. Theoretically, with Saudi Arabia focused on the situation in Bahrain and Syria occupied by internal problems, the only country willing and able to do the job is Iran. All eyes are now focused on Iraqi Kurdistan President Masoud al-Ba...

… final peace deals. I believed that in the choice between concessions, even painful ones, and a genuine peace deal with Syria or the Palestinians, by far most Israelis would choose peace. I relied on a strong, close team around me, people I knew well and who shared my determinat...

…ly too high. Sayeret Matkal was born three years later. Avraham was still part of the unit running low-level agents in Syria and Lebanon, but his commander reluctantly agreed to allow him to set up his new intelligence group. His initial “headquarters” was a sparsely furnished T...

…of their destiny and try to shape them. Yet making peace, like making war, takes two. Much as I’d wanted to begin with Syria, until well into the autumn of 1999 President Assad was holding firm on his insistence that without our “deposit,” without a prior agreement that he’d get...

Indyk. Israeli public believes that they have no Arab partner w whom they can negotiate a peace. Syria reinforces notion that Israel should not take risk when regimes are fragile. DR. Sinai is flashpoint w Egypt. Admin has had a very meaning? Palestinian issue is not key. Wasn’t...

…inian unity government headed by Prime Minister Rami Hamdallah is sworn in. Bashar al-Assad is re-elected President of Syria in an election whose legitimacy was widely contested. Field Marshall Abdel Fattah a-Sissi is sworn in as President of the Arab Republic of Egypt followin...

…ers. About 100,000 of the lamps have been (or are being) used after emergencies in Japan, the Philippines, Thailand and Syria. Sunlite makes 15,000 lamps a month at two plants in India, including one in a special economic zone in Gujarat state. Next month, there will be a new w...