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…e intelligence missions now required were going to be a lot tougher. Israel now had control of the entire Sinai and the Golan. To tap into enemy communications, we would have to push deeper inside Egypt and Syria. Soon after my return, we began planning the sayeret’s most ambiti...

…d been lab partners. The other was Rafi Friedman, our paramedic, who had been with me on several of our missions on the Golan. Avraham arrived at the base around noon. I got a Jeep and we set off. We crossed into Egypt around four o’clock in the afternoon and headed for the fiel...

…ent Clinton urged me to help kick- start new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card — our only real negotiating card — before we had any indication Assad...

…her the army could work out arrangements to safeguard the country’s security if we handed back most, if not all, of the Golan Heights. If so, what kind of security arrangements, with what timeline? We met through the summer, as the 301 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028149

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…forts with him. But so far, his true intentions had never been fested, beyond his obvious determination to get back the Golan. Nor had Arafat’s, beyond his focus on the detail and extent of West Bank redeployments. President Clinton did not object to an early effort to reopen ou...

… — armies we’d not just defeated, but humiliated, six years earlier — had pinned down and pushed back our forces on the Golan Heights and in the Sinai. Without any advance call-up, many reservists were only now reaching the front lines. As hundreds of people pressed for seats on...

…wed was brutal in places: especially around Jerusalem, but also in the south at the outset of the war, and later on the Golan Heights. The first effect back in Israel of our air force attacks was to make our sayeret helicopter missions into the Sinai suddenly superfluous. In fac...

…a, he asked me to unfold the map I'd brought with me and talk him through, step by step, how we planned to get onto the Golan, plant the bugging device, and get back 66 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027914

…eaders had learned: a deal might be possible, but only if Israel was willing to commit in advance to pulling out of the Golan. Assad told Lauder to come back to him with a detailed map setting out Bibi’s view on delineating the Israeli-Syrian border under a peace agreement. Thoug...

…ent Clinton urged me to help kick- start new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card — our only real negotiating card — before we had any indication Assad...

…for a Syrian peace deal that was not to come. Despite Barak offering Syrian President Hafez al-Assad 99 per cent of the Golan Heights, it still fell short of Assad’s demand for a return to the 4 June 1967 lines, and the Syria track subsequently crumbled. This put Arafat on the sp...

…her the army could work out arrangements to safeguard the country’s security if we handed back most, if not all, of the Golan Heights. If so, what kind of security arrangements, with what timeline? We met through the summer, as the 301 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011772

…mselves. I was confident that if we did have to go to war again, the equipment we installed, along with the bugs on the Golan, would give us an essential edge. But in truth, I didn’t actually believe there would be another war. Sure, the threat was still there. Egypt, in particul...