…wealth and influential friends including former President Bill Clinton, Prince Andrew and Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak, can effectively bend the law to his whim. The 53-year-old police chief, who retired in 2009, was so furious at what he believed was obstruction by state...
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/ BARAK / 2 cabinet meeting the day before, by reviving an idea I’d supported under Rabin: to build a security fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it...
…'s your weekend look like? On Friday, February 19, 2016, jeffrey E. <[email protected]> wrote: Im here today, ehud barak at 1 , would you like to join at 2? On Fri, Feb 19, 2016 at 12:44 PM, Michacl Wolff ii otc: NYT called me about you and Trump. Also, Hillary campaign di...
/ BARAK / 109 Chapter Twenty-Four I had only a general idea of what I would do next. “Something in business” describes it best. But I sought the advice of a friend who, rather than leaving politics, had just entered it. Colin Powell was now the second President Bush’s Secretary...
/ BARAK / 115 Minister, I felt it was not my place to criticize Olmert publicly when Israeli troops were in action. Two days in, in fact, I told a television interviewer that the government had every right to respond and was doing so effectively. Olmert phoned to thank me. When...
/ BARAK / 106 there’s no doubt you’ ll decide to build this fence. But to your dying day, you won’t be able to look yourself in the mirror and explain why you waited for another 630 Israelis to die first.” He did eventually start building it, but only in the wake of an act of t...
/ BARAK / 120 capable to taking over Gaza. But what then, I asked. Unless we were prepared to resume open-ended Israeli control, we’d be left with no one to run Gaza afterwards. The obvious candidate, Egypt, was even less interested than we were in assuming responsibility for th...
… politics, he still might have got the job. Then, suddenly, he shouted: “Reuma!” When his wife appeared, he said: “Tell Barak the missing piece in my life, the one I’ve never stopped regretting.” She smiled, and said: “It’s the fact you did not become ramatkal.” I saw Rabin a co...
/ 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...
…pstein's wealth and social connections—former President Bill Clinton; Prince Andrew; former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak; New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson; and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers were just a few of the prominent passengers on his private jets—allow him to...
/ BARAK / 119 receiving money from Talansky. But he insisted it was all a part of election campaign contributions. Publicly, I reserved judgement. “I hope, for everyone’s sake, and for Prime Minister Olmert’s sake, that the suspicions now circulating turn out to be baseless,” I...
/ 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...
/ BARAK / 105 Yet the turnout was the lowest in Israeli history. Arik received fewer votes than I had in 1999. Around half of the 1.8 million people who had supported me stayed at home. I conceded defeat after the first exit polls and said I would be stepping down as head of th...
/ BARAK / 116 the beginning summed up the feeling of most of the country at the end: “If you don’t win, you lose... Hizbollah survived. It won the war.” Without the botched handling of the war, I might well have remained a mere member of the Labor Party and a private citizen. B...
/ BARAK / 110 any business involvement that could present a conflict of interest now that I had left. Frankly, I saw nothing wrong with earning money through honest endeavor, and using the proceeds to provide economic security for myself and my family, and to give our grandchild...