Results for “Palestinian leadership”

…t would go well. He briefed me on the questions I could expect, not just about the Achille Lauro but the wider issue of Palestinian attacks, as well as Syrian President Hafez al- Assad’s efforts to re-equip his air force after his losses in Lebanon. So I came to the interview pre...

…for us to hear a half-dozen academics and other specialists speak about the political aspects of the sudden eruption of Palestinian violence. Though he spoke for barely 10 minutes, it was the last speaker who left the deepest impression. Shimon Shamir, a professor at Tel Aviv Un...

…plomacy, when the hostages were all released in a deal in which the Swiss, German, British and Israeli governments let Palestinian prisoners go.” (http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/27/politics/terrorism-19 70s-richard- nixon/index.html) This 9/11 response sounds quite normal of course...

… opening session in Madrid, the “bilateral tracks” — between Israel and negotiators from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians — had quickly stalemated and stalled. Yitzhak came to office saying he was not interested in a peace process, which seemed to him a license for en...

…ing continued Israeli settlement building in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Saudis believe that solving the issue of Palestinian statehood will deny Iran a key pillar in its regional expansionist strategy—and thus bring a win for the forces of Sunni moderation that Riyadh want...

…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 were fighting a full-scale civil war agai...

…f Turkey, Emir Hamad al-Thani of Qatar, and Saudi Crown Prince Salman. The summit aimed to discuss Syria, Mali, and the Palestinian issue. The spotlight, however, was on Mahmoud Ahmadinejad: the first Iranian president to visit Egypt since the 1979 Islamic revolution. Libya: On...

…Aqsa mosque stand. I knew Hussein had been there as a boy when his grandfather, King Abdullah, was shot and killed by a Palestinian amid rumors he was contemplating peace with Israel. Now, Rabin had been murdered, by an Israeli. “To me, it’s like the closing of a circle,” Hussein...

…urvivors. The Arabs paid a heavy price too, and not just the roughly 7,000 people who lost their lives. Nearly 700,000 Palestinian Arabs had fled — or, in some cases, been forced to flee — towns and villages in what was now Israel. The full extent and circumstances of the Arabs’...

should, offer in search of a true peace with the Palestinians. I was the one who would be blamed by the inevitable critics, whether for going too far or not far enough, or simply for the fact the deal had eluded us. I knew the drill: the same thing had happened when I had come ta...

…isit was to dramatize his determination to keep it that way. The target of this political theatre was not Arafat or the Palestinians. It was the Israeli public, me, and my government. In an all-perfect world, I would have liked to find a way to block the visit. In a democracy, it...

…pt the form of an apartheid regime, which I think is not what many Israelis want. FP: What is the most important thing Palestinians have learned about Israelis? SE: That Israelis will not take back the ships that brought them here to leave somewhere else. We got to understand t...

…he Airya. To the extent that Arik and Raful saw any cloud on the horizon, it was their concern about “several thousand” Palestinian fighters who they were certain had stayed on in Beirut despite the evacuation. True, Bashir Gemayel hadn’t been formally inaugurated as president. T...

…with Arik now moved to defense minister, would further put the brakes on any follow-up negotiations for a deal with the Palestinians. I did not yet know that Arik, in particular, had a far more ambitious, military plan to try to bury the possibility of a Palestinian state once an...

…e Israel’s blockade of Gaza seems to be a parable for something else, part of an unstated effort to recast the Israeli- Palestinian narrative in extreme terms. Instead of helping to clarify what Gaza needs and how it might build a future, the saga has merely brought out the publi...