/ BARAK / 72 this saga.” I told the President that I still believed that we were facing a “moment of truth.” But only if he could “shake” Arafat, and get him to sense the enormity of the stakes — an independent Palestinian state, versus more, and undoubtedly deadlier, violence....
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themselves. Every year, new threats arise. And the old ones: Hezbollah, Iran, terrorism —are all "alive and kicking" and growing even stronger. But there is good news too. Israel is the strongest country in the region, from Tripoli in Libya to Tehran. It's the strongest militari...
asked what he knew about the car outside. “Nothing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture J...
sometime were. It called for mental application, an ability to assess risks, to find answers under enormous pressure when, inevitably, things went wrong. It required not just brawn, but brains. A week before I began my final year at Hebrew University, I went to see Eli Zeira, th...
a sort of "autonomy" for the Palestinians — is an illusion at best, and the first step of an upcoming blame game at worst. It will be brutally rejected by our closest friends — not to mention by each of the potential partners for the regional agreement — and by all of them togeth...
…e book gives plenty of examples of each maneuver discussed but it is important for each of us to discover the unique workings of his own mind. That takes the work of the Inner Jihad. FP: Share with our readers what you mean by the “Turnaround Moment.” Siegel: There is a moment...
DAVID BROOKS David Brooks (born August 11, 1961) is a political and cultural commentator who writes for The New York Times. He worked as an editorial writer and film reviewer for the Washington Times; a reporter and later op-ed editor for The Wall Street Journal; a senior edito...
/ BARAK / 42 negotiations. The first stirrings of discontent had begun even before I went to see Clinton. On the basis of my commitment merely to try for peace, Arik Sharon had presented a no-confidence motion in the Knesset. It was never going to pass. But only days after I’d m...
to adapt on the ground. And obviously pleased that we’d found a way to make the operation work. The Sinai mission marked a transition not just for me, but for others in Sayeret Matkal as well. Avraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the h...
again. The more I talked, however, the more I sensed that the details weren’t what General Tzur really wanted to know. I think what he actually wanted to gauge was whether / felt confident. He wanted to reassure himself he wasn’t taking any more than the obvious risks in sending...
/ BARAK / 37 was coping in his trademark military uniform. Still, the mood music going into the meeting was encouraging. After the election, Arafat had tried to use his ties with the ayatollahs in Iran to get them to release 13 members of the tiny Jewish community in Shiraz who...
/ BARAK / 25 1982 Lebanon War, with two sons fighting on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to present military operatio...
…e book gives plenty of examples of each maneuver discussed but it is important for each of us to discover the unique workings of his own mind. That takes the work of the Inner Jihad. FP: Share with our readers what you mean by the “Turnaround Moment.” Siegel: There is a moment...
Places like Bet El, Shiloh, or Hebron. They represented the historic wellspring not just of the state we’d created, but of Jewish civilization, our heritage, our moral and ethical foundation. As I drove back to Tel Aviv with Avraham and the others on the morning of fourth day of...
¢ A strong and growing economy in an open relationship with global markets. ¢ Foreign policy that assures international backing, especially American — diplomatic and economic- backing Israel's positions, and which holds the "moral high ground" vis-a- vis our enemies and opponent...