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… making peace. But I did feel it was necessary to reassure Clinton that / was serious. I told him that, if and when the Syrians showed real signs of readiness to address our needs in a peace agreement, I would reaffirm the “pocket deposit.” I’d come to Washington hoping that Pr...

…ed to give up or accept in negotiations. I was cautious about ceding too much too soon, in case the Palestinians or the Syrians proved either unequal to, or uninterested in, making the hard decisions required for peace. That was an approach with, like Yitzhak 305 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT...

…ny A operation, the response would have been automatic. They would have wheeled, opened fire and attacked. But when the Syrians ordered the Golanis to drop their weapons, one of them did, and the Company A men followed suit. They were all taken to Damascus, held in solitary confi...

… extent of West Bank redeployments. President Clinton did not object to an early effort to reopen our efforts with the Syrians. But he was worried about the effects of ignoring the already-creaking prospects of fulfilling the promise of Oslo. If we were going to delay focusing o...

… to prevent mass atrocities. Will we put boots on the ground. Steve Hadley (ex Bush): Need to assure ourselves and the Syrians that we are aligning with the Syrian people. Forget the UN. This will send a critical message to China and Russia that they don’t have a veto on US poli...

…o, the war left its mark on Sayeret Matkal. Though the fighting had been brief, people did die. Thousands of Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians. And about 650 Israelis. Some of were not just people we knew. They included close friends. Nechemia Cohen, the officer I’d joined in our...

… making peace. But I did feel it was necessary to reassure Clinton that / was serious. I told him that, if and when the Syrians showed real signs of readiness to address our needs in a peace agreement, I would reaffirm the “pocket deposit.” I’d come to Washington hoping that Pr...

…he spot: how could he now, in front of the Arab world, accept less for the Palestinians than Assad had demanded for the Syrians? The Lebanon track fared better. It began in late 1999 with a dialogue between Prime Minister Barak and me, as the newly appointed UN Special Coordinat...

…ation, I linked up witha group of other sayeret reservists. Israeli tanks had already broken the main resistance of the Syrians, but fighting was continuing in a few parts of the Golan. In the western corner of the Heights which bordered Lebanon, several villages still lay beyond...

…ity, a mere 5 percent of the population. Thus, Syria’s is a nationwide revolution against a minority regime. Almost all Syrians agree that the situation is untenable. Assad’s policy of rule by massacre has few supporters outside his clan. Judging by the revolution’s most popular...

and what they see in Washington is a president who prefers the Assads to the possibility of chaos. They realize that the measures taken until now by the United States and Europe have been relatively gentle

…y when he would call the election. But he asked me to take on that role. Both Peres and I proved to be right about the Syrians. The negotiations did resume, and two rounds of talks were held at Wye River, on Maryland’s eastern shore, in December 1995 and January 1996. They did f...

…eve there was a possibility of achieving peace with the Palestinians. I knew, from my involvement in the talks with the Syrians, that the outline of a possible peace agreement with Assad was already in place. I frankly wasn’t confident that Bibi was the man to lead it forward. Ye...

but a model for what many Arabs would like to see their countries become. This model — a government with roots in Islam but also committed to democracy

…d to endorse them and to promise to recognize Israel and establish relations with it as peace with the Palestinians and Syrians goes into effect. Now, this type of initiative will of course be controversial, particularly among partisans of Israel, who have long maintained that t...