Results for “Israeli Knesset”

… analysis and keen judgement, especially on security issues, which I highly valued. It did not escape the attention of Israeli commentators, or other politicians, that almost all of them were former soldiers whom I’d known from my time in uniform. But that observation missed a m...

… shoulders at the opening of the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991. And over the years, he continued to annoy the Israelis too with his fiery performances on CNN -- though to this day, key Israeli negotiators, such as Isaac Molho, continue to praise his pragmatism at the ba...

…eserves. Disentangling the details would take months. But we already knew the human cost of those failures. Hundreds of Israeli soldiers had been killed. The final number would be around 2,800, nearly four times our losses in 1967. Thousands were wounded, some crippled for life....

…ponsible for the losses suffered by Battalion 890 at the Chinese Farm. I’m sure that if he’d known what happened to the Israeli forces that had already tried to take it over, he would never have allowed Yitzhik to go in without adequate armor and artillery support. Still, he blam...

… radiated his usual calm and confidence. For the first time, I felt a bit more hopeful. “Ma nishmah, Ehud? he asked, in Israelis’ everyday greeting. “What’s up?” I told him I’d just come from the airport. “I can help in special forces, infantry, armor. Whichever is most needed.”...

… whether to flee or escalate. What, if anything in a display, reflects the signaler’s true capacity and motivation? The Israeli evolutionary biologist Amotz Zahavi provided a simple, yet far-reaching explanation of honest signaling. Honesty, in the animal world, is simply about p...

…ceed. That evening, she apologized to me for the misunderstanding, and explained the mix-up to the full Palestinian and Israeli negotiating teams. I spent most of the remaining three days in my cabin or, when the rain relented, walking through the woods. The Americans appeared t...

… he was Prime Minister. But even on the left, there was little enthusiasm for returning the Golan. There were far fewer Israeli settlers there than on the West Bank, not even 20,000. But most of them, far from being religiously motivated ideologues, were Labor supporters. And alm...

…ndant charities including IIRO, MWL, WAMY, BIF, Blessed Relief (Muwaffaq) Foundation, and Al Haramain. Id. ¶¶ 359, 360. Israeli officials allegedly have seized funds associated with several Arab Bank accounts maintained on behalf of known fronts for Hamas and identified by Arab B...

…ge the strike a deal, we are going to change the map and history of the Middle East.” I reminded them it would be up to Israelis to say yes or no, ina referendum, to the terms of any agreement we negotiated. “If we achieve a breakthrough, I’m confident they will do so, by a lands...

…ulf correspondent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, is available. As Americans, Israelis and Palestinians continue their endless peace-jockeying, a more hopeful solution has emerged. It is a fresh Arab initiative that depends neither on Ame...

…al discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academics find dismantling myths of “American exceptionalism” or “Israeli self-defense” or Obama’s mass murder campaign, etc., offensive — so be it. But | don’t see why that should extend to ridicule. That includes astrologis...

…profiles in newspapers and profiles in magazines attempting to document the two men who are supposed to make the effort—Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028670

…r and they look pretty interesting indeed. I will voice the news about your publication to my colleagues.” Eva Jablonka Israeli theorist and geneticist. “Thank you very much for sending us the online ninth issue (very interesting and thought provoking).” Andrew Jordan Professor o...

…t you were, the more correct you were on Israel. Netanyahu was an old Kushner family friend, but when, in the fall, the Israeli prime minister came to New York to meet with Trump and Kushner, he made a point of seeking out Steve Bannon. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_019990