Results for “Yitzhak Shamir”

and the person who led me into politics: Yitzhak Rabin. I

I was invited to see Yitzhak Rabin ten days later.

Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d

he remained personally close to Yitzhak.

emotional attachment to our historic capital. “Yitzhak would never have

…Its centerpiece was a memorial service, at which Leah spoke very movingly of the need for both sides to finish the work Yitzhak had begun, a responsibility I pledged that we would do everything in our power to fulfill. Only Arafat struck a discordant note. He paired a tribute to...

…a security fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it would be seen as a de facto border and undermine the idea of building coexistence. My view then, and...

…I also realized he was a Labor heavyweight and that, although he’d left the government, he remained personally close to Yitzhak. “Yes,” Yitzhak replied, nodding, suggesting that we talk through the idea in detail when I returned from New York. I was in my room at the Regency Hot...

…ght Ank was probably right. Other Israeli generals with far more experience, and weight, also seemed to agree. Notably, Yitzhak Rabin. He was no longer in government, nor even in charge of Labor. But he had always had a soft spot for Arik, as did Sharon for him. With uneasiness,...

…extension to Hamas terrorism. I couldn’t sleep the night before the cabinet meeting. I had no desire to be disloyal to Yitzhak. I certainly didn’t want to add to the pressures on him, much less add further impetus to Bibi’s rhetorical onslaughts. But the more I thought of it, th...

crowded. I heard the first rumors from a staff officer in military intelligence, though neither he nor anyone else I asked was sure if they were true. But it seemed that the Phalangists had been sent into Sabra and Shatila. And that they had begun killing people. I'd like to thi...

Chapter Fifteen On the morning of April 1, 1991. I got up even earlier than usual, to visit the graves of the men who had lost their lives in my battalion in the Yom Kippur War. I also went to pay my respects to Uzi Yairi, killed when he’d rushed from his desk in the kiryva to j...

generally civil, and often friendly contacts, Israelis had with Palestinians at the time. The local population had, after all, been under other occupation powers before 1967: Jordan in the West Bank, and Egypt in Gaza. Assuming our administration was less onerous, most Israelis b...

/ BARAK / 16 talks with the Americans on the further West Bank redeployments meandered ahead. We also discussed in detail how a unity government would work. We agreed it would be presented, like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984, as a cross- party response to an important cha...

/ BARAK / 25 1982 Lebanon War, with two sons fighting on the ground, he’d been a rare voice of common sense, and caution, in the Begin cabinet. I’d also seen him operate in Shamir’s inner security cabinet, when I would come, as deputy chief of staff, to present military operatio...