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…ost unlimited 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 obstruc...

…partment of International Organizations in Moscow, Permanent Russian representative to NATO in Brussels, Deputy Foreign Minister, and Ambassador to the United States. Nothing in his 37-year career, either during or after the Cold War, suggests that his moves are not aligned with...

…nd of violent resistance in the West Bank in the years after the bloody Second Intifada, coupled with Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad's widely-respected institution- building initiative, could get a crucial private sector assist through Rawabi's eventual success. And Ra...

…nt holdout was Syria’s Hafez al-Assad. He objected because he said the conference was too focused on Israel. As Foreign Minister, I accompanied Shimon to the summit. A single day’s meeting was never going to end terror. But it was unprecedented in the breadth of Arab engagement i...

…l Sessions to Carlos Barria | Reuters President Donald Trump speaks during a joint news conference with Italy's Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte in the East Room of the White House in Washington, July 30, 2018. HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_026866

…come of Paris was an initiative called ‘Mission Innovation’. It was launched by President Obama and by the Indian Prime Minister Modi. And endorsed by 20 other nations. It’s a campaign to double publicly funded R and D into clean energy by 2020. There’s been a parallel pledge by...

…ndamentally, Arik’s war plan was not a response to the Katyushas. It was a way of using military force to achieve Prime Minister Begin’s political aim: stopping the Camp David peace process in its tracks, and ensuring it did not go beyond the peace treaty with Egypt. And even tha...

…sent him the following note: "Good Morning, I hope your travels to Cyprus were smooth. Okey Enelamah, Nigeria's trade minister, stopped by my home this evening as he was still in town after Buhari's visit with Trump. He mentioned his discussions with you at WEF and afterwards....

…an imprisoned Soviet refusenick. His mother and wife asked me, along with my friend and colleague Irwin Cotler, now the Minister of Justice in Canada, to represent Anatoly on a pro-bono basis. We continued to be his lawyer for nearly nine years. We were not allowed to meet our cl...

…I dismissed the unpopular government of Samir Rifai and entrusted Marouf Al Bakhit, an ex-army general and former prime minister, with forming a new government. Bakhit’s major task would be “to take speedy practical and tangible steps to unleash a real political reform process th...

…f. I accepted this. I recognized that I was not just a former kibbutznik. I had been head of the Labor Party. And Prime Minister. Still, I did feel much of the personal criticism was unfair. I had devoted more than four decades of my life to serving my country. I’d behaved with s...

…up taking what seemed to me the only realistic option. In January 2011, I left the Labor Party. With three other of our ministers in the government — who were, of course, aware of the ongoing Iran discussions — I set up a new “centrist, Zionist” party called Ha’Atzmaut, or Indepe...

…ay 16, 2017. For one, it had just been reported that Trump had disclosed classified intelligence to the Russian foreign minister and ambassador in the Oval Office. For another, Comey’s accounts of Trump’s private pressure on him had just leaked out. It was a wild time.","textStyl...

… terms ended. I wanted him to keep a record of our understanding in his desk and pass it on if someone else was Defense Minister by that time. Without a moment’s hesitation, he took out a piece of paper and wrote down exactly what he’d told me about the succession. He shook my ha...

…the Iranian leadership” when Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is serious about negotiations. [ran’s Foreign Minister, Ali Akbar Salehi responded favorably and said, “I am optimistic, I feel this new administration is really seeking this time to at least divert from it...