Results for “Yitzhak”

…ue role in our reaching this moment — somebody who was my commander and guide, and the person who led me into politics: Yitzhak Rabin. I pledged to fulfil his legacy, and complete the work he’d started. And I extended a hand to “secular and religious, the ultra-Orthodox and the r...

…nterim period had yet to begin. In one respect, I had some sympathy for Bibi’s predicament. The reason I'd tried to get Yitzhak to alter the terms of Oslo II was that it required us to hand back control before we knew what a “permanent- status” peace deal would look like. But whe...

…briefly at the end of my officer’s course but who I would come to know well, and work closely with, in the years ahead: Yitzhak Rabin. The helicopter lifted off at about six-thirty at night. Compared to special operations nowadays, the mission still had a somewhat improvised fee...

…th his final message from the chopper: “Out of the fog. Heading home.” With the rest of the team, I was invited to see Yitzhak Rabin ten days later. We were being given a further tzalash. This was the first time I'd met him since leaving officers’ school two years earlier, when,...

…seemed off the agenda, at least for now. In early August, I was standing next to Giora Einy — the “political operative” Yitzhak had sent to help bring me into his government, and a friend of Peres as well — when Shimon rose to speak to the dozens of well- wishers at his 73"-birth...

… in much the same vein when President 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 — b...

… than a new relationship between Israelis and Palestinians based on trust. As I would discover in the months ahead — as Yitzhak had found as well — Arafat responded warmly to such general appeals of principle. He replied that he viewed me as a partner, and a friend. But the key i...

… establish a state came only later, after my many years in uniform, and especially when, as deputy chief-of-staff under Yitzhak Rabin, we were faced with the explosion of violence in the West Bank and Gaza that became known as the first intifada. And while my determination as Pri...

…ectual argument. I badly wanted us to win: both for Peres’s sake and the country’s, and to redeem and continue all that Yitzhak had sacrificed. Despite my misgivings about some aspects of the Oslo process, I did believe there was a possibility of achieving peace with the Palestin...

… Rabin’s “pocket deposit” as a mere ticket of admission, my position remained essentially the one I had worked out with Yitzhak in formulating the deposit: IAMNAM, “‘if all my needs are met.”’ Meaning that if Assad showed a readiness to deal with /srael’s requirements in a peace...

…iscovered, one of the leading scientific engineers in Israel, Yosef Tulipman, had a daughter among the passengers. Like Yitzhak, he had been a Palmachnik. He’d come to see the Prime Minister and implored him not to attempt an operation that might endager her or the others. “I dem...

…rly three decades before the two of us actually met — shortly after the assassination of my longtime comrade and friend Yitzhak Rabin, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he an...

…rnment, let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from 1974 to 1977. Today Peres is widely respected as the architect of the Oslo Accord of 1993, achieved while he was Foreign Minister. It was the...

…tunity? Saeb Erekat: Though I was not the chief negotiator at that moment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, including myself, feel that peace was possible. There was significant progress in all tracks unti...

…iciently experienced, but did not bear responsibility for the errors of the war. For Prime Minister, the choice fell on Yitzhak Rabin. He had strong military credentials, of course. But he had left the army and entered politics, and had been out of Israel for several years as Isr...