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…r? Levy interrupted. “Gentlemen,” he said, “we are not in company commanders’ course. We’re in the inner cabinet of the government of Israel. We have a chief of staff and other generals and military professionals. It’s their job to decide the operational details. Our job is to ba...

…0 years of negotiations with Israel? They could spend another 20 years negotiating without results, because the Israeli government doesn't even want to put an end to the conflict. The Israelis are only serious about gaining more land and expanding the settlements. HOUSE_OVERSIGH...

…to the matter of coalition politics, which is very much on our minds right now as Netanyahu struggles to put together a government, let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from 1974 to 1977. Tod...

…ion, Israel would do SO. Since the Knesset had returned before my trip to Washington, I’d needed first to make sure my government would survive. The obvious, or at least the most mathematically secure, choice would have been a deal with Sharon. Especially since the lynching in R...

…spected President, Shimon Peres, is once again very much in the news. In his speech inviting Netanyahu to form the next government, the President spoke forcefully about peace and even seemed to influence Bibi to mention peace, a word he never used in his election campaign. Peres...

…ered politics, and had been out of Israel for several years as Israel’s ambassador to Washington. He had joined Golda’s government only weeks before the war, in the relatively minor role of Minister of Labor. Much the same thing happened in the army. Only one of the generals who...

…the war. It was demoralizing for the Israeli public, for the soldiers who we rotated into the security zone and for the government as well. The difficulty was that it was also a situation that perfectly suited Hizbollah. In late October, a Katyusha rocket had claimed the life of...

…not been eliminated altogether, we had “very good operational plans” that would be “carried out when and if the Israeli government instructs us to implement them.” Yet I added a caveat. “On the political level, fingers are itching to carry out operations which, in our opinion, ca...

…as microscopic, any risk of civilians being subjected to terror, panic and very possibly agonizing death meant that the government had to take precautions. The obvious first step would be to distribute gas masks. But in a series of meetings with Misha and Dan, I emphasized this w...

…dvance into the Sinai. In the Lebanon war, the inquiry suggested, Yehoshua Saguy did try to warn the generals, and the government, about major risks. But individual ministers testified that they hadn’t heard, hadn’t been there, or hadn’t understood, leading the inquiry to stress...

…e 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 visit to the Temple Mount. The Mount -...

… he addressed the baying mob from a hotel balcony, he uttered not a single word of reproach. In fact, he called Rabin’s government “illegitimate”, because it relied in part on the votes of Israeli Arab Knesset members. The day of the vote, the mob descended on the Knesset. Rabin...

…h reason to change our investment allocations, and remain medium-term overweight both credit and equities against cash, government debt, and commodities. We do so on the basis of value – still high risk premia – fading risks on fiscal policy in the US into next year; an expected...

…rd-liners, too, may calculate that a short war could serve their purpose: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's far-right government may sense weakness and quietly dream of finishing off Hamas once and for all. Syria has been a strong supporter of Hamas and has given a base in Dama...

…alks with the Americans on the further West Bank redeployments meandered ahead. We also discussed in detail how a unity government would work. We agreed it would be presented, like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984, as a cross- party response to an important challenge for the...