Results for “Arik”

killing a young Peace Now member. Even Arik was

not only had Arik remained as a minister without portfolio when

both sides lost. Arik fell seven votes short of a majority. So the

…ated, to succeed. The problem wasn’t the choice of units. No one could doubt the record of Battalion 890, or of the men Arik had sent in before Yitzhik arrived. But there was no way they were going to take the area on their own. I couldn’t understand why there wasn’t an attempt t...

…ficient support to be an effective Prime Minister much beyond Clinton’s departure were not much better. It was not just Arik and the Likud, but other parties on the right that were actively attempting to bring down the government. I was being squeezed politically: by opposition t...

…-month window to reshape and stabilize my coalition — but only if we could weather a no-confidence motion introduced by Arik Sharon after Camp David. We did weather it, barely. Arik needed a majority of the Knesset’s 120 seats to bring down the government. The vote ended in a 50-...

…the lynching in Ramallah, there were calls from politicians on all sides for a unity coalition between Labor and Likud. Arik definitely wanted in. The main issue reamined the peace process. I didn’t find Arik’s specific objections to Camp David hard to deal with. As I’d said from...

…as different. It had been launched in pursuit of a specific political vision: a marriage of Begin’s political credo and Arik’s determination to use overwhelming force to bulldoze a new political reality in Lebanon. The findings of the inquiry commission were published in Februar...

…rdered 30 people, mostly elderly, as they were celebrating the annual Passover Seder in a hotel dining room in Netanya. Arik hit back two days later with Israel’s largest military operation on the West Bank since 1967. Israeli forces retook major Palestinian towns, placed Arafat...

…as different. It had been launched in pursuit of a specific political vision: a marriage of Begin’s political credo and Arik’s determination to use overwhelming force to bulldoze a new political reality in Lebanon. The findings of the inquiry commission were published in Februar...

… was about to take his turn as Prime Minister in October 1986; Misha, now a minister without portfolio; and most of all Arik Sharon. In an astonishing demonstration of resilience and determination, not only had Arik remained as a minister without portfolio when Shamir succeeded M...

…rdered 30 people, mostly elderly, as they were celebrating the annual Passover Seder in a hotel dining room in Netanya. Arik hit back two days later with Israel’s largest military operation on the West Bank since 1967. Israeli forces retook major Palestinian towns, placed Arafat...

…ed to look for the kidnapped soldiers, an explosive charge blew up one of our tanks, killing four of its crew members. Arik was no longer Prime Minister by then. With Bibi marshalling opposition inside the Likud to the Gaza disenagegment, he had formed a new centrist party calle...

…offensive in the command bunker in the south: Shmuel Gonen, known as “Gorodish’’, who was head of the southern command; Arik Sharon, who had left the same job for politics a few months earlier, but was now commanding a division near the canal; and Chaim Bar-Lev, the former chief-...

…convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Araf...