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/ BARAK / 132 its terror attack on a Pan American airliner in the late 1980s. Or, as in South Africa, that a change in nuclear policy might come from a change in régime in Tehran. Yet realistically, we couldn’t count on either. And there was no doubt in our minds that a nuclear...

/ BARAK / 144 was off the agenda. The diplomatic process with the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. Du...

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/ BARAK / 144 was off the agenda. The diplomatic process with the Palestinians was stalemated. I could see no point in remaining in the government. Like my last period in Olmert’s government, my final few months were dominated by finding a way to end Hamas attacks from Gaza. Du...

responsibility,” I said. “Both of our peoples have paid a heavy price. The time has come to find a way to solve this.” In the half hour we spent together later, I could see that, physically, the Fatah leader from Karameh was not just older. He had a frailty about him. His skin s...

I' m ashamed of /ncreasing the military budget and decreasing the welfare budget. |’ m ashamed of dropping cluster bombs and continuing to plant land mines. But the Republicans didn’ t dare attack me for any of those positions because they are their positions too. I’ Il tell yo...

/ 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 / 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...

led by Netanyahu. Free and democratic Arab countries won’t shrink from supporting this Palestinian right under any circumstances. Muslims will not give up on East Jerusalem

David Hale—and another official will take a crack at the quandary. But despite new momentum from Netanyahu's visit next week and Obama's speech Thursday

willingness to chip away, one airport prayer room, one frivolous intimidating lawsuit, one Congressman or CIA officer, one mosque, one ruling at a time. Particularly in the US, given our deep attachment to freedom as well as cultural and psychological tendencies toward diversity...

The problem for Israel, no matter who or what party is in government, is that there are risks everywhere one looks, and they show every sign of getting more, not less, serious. The “Arab Spring” has morphed into an Islamic winter. National frontiers that were put in place by Bri...

Ashkenazim — and their prominence and privilege had stoked increasing resentment among Israel’s disadvantaged Sephardi majority, with their roots in the Arab world and especially north Africa. Begin not only sensed this. While he’d never lost the formal bearing — or the accent —...

/ BARAK / 31 Nava and I voted, we attended an event for Labor supporters north of Tel Aviv, before flying to Beersheva to spend the final hours in the Negev. I’d arranged for Shlomo Ben-Ami to go to Kiryat Shmona in the north — emphasizing, as throughout the campaign, our determ...

court. The president called home to tell his friends how natural and easy this was, and how, inexplicably and suspiciously, Obama had messed it all up. There “has been a little strain, but there won’t be strain with this administration,” the president assured Hamad bin Isa Al Kha...