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given time an improved "interim agreement" would be better (unless the P5+1 yield to a bad agreement.) ¢ The Iranians are very sophisticated. In their opinion (I emphasize: in their opinion), the American government has changed its goal without admitting it, from "Iran will not...

…em, weaving our way through the Judaean Desert toward Kumeran, on the Dead Sea. Now a very different war had come and gone. I’d fought in it. Ron, as what is now called an embedded journalist, had been with Danny Matt’s paratroopers when they’d crossed the canal. He was alongsid...

nerves over military maneuvers by Anwar Sadat a few weeks earlier. But that had come to nothing. In no small part due to the success of the raid on Rue Verdun, Israel’s generals believed the balance of strength and security was on our side and that, at least for a while, Israel c...

…ticle 5. YaleGlobal Is the US Ready To Be Number Two? Kishore Mahbubani 11 February 2013 -- SINGAPORE: Long before anyone did, former US president Bill Clinton saw that America would have to prepare for the time HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_018212

FP: 2013 is the 20th anniversary of the Oslo negotiations. What was Oslo's greatest success, and its greatest failure? SE: The fact that, two decades after Oslo, we are still a nation under occupation shows that Israeli governments did derail it. The interim accords were not sup...

…eace with Israel Hamid Alkifaey AricleS-’ The Daily Beast The Awkward Exit of Mideast Envoy George Mitchell Daniel Stone Article 4. | The Washington Post Amid the Arab Spring, a U.S.-Saudi split Nawaf Obaid Article 5. N ewsweek Dr. K’s Rx for China Niall Ferguson Article...

…d been raised with a deeper respect for our Jewish traditions than many on the left. Right after Yitzhak’s murder, I’d gone to see Zevulun Hammer, the leader of the National Religious Party. It had been part of both Labor and Likud governments ever since 1948, though not Rabin’s....

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

political (and often personal) price — to help us achieve a breakthrough with the Palestinians, though the effort did not succeed. Nor did we succeed (Rabin and Peres, myself, Olmert and Bibi as well). They shouldn't be ridiculed and debased for this. They should be appreciated....

…I knew that everything he and I said would be shared with at least a few of his closest policy aides and negotiators. Sooner or later, word would get to Arafat. When we did begin negotiations, he’d take whatever number I gave as a mere starting point. Still, I knew I had to signa...

capability. Period." to "Iran will not have military nuclear capability on our watch " e This is of course a completely different thing. And this perception only reinforces Iran's obduracy and the delaying tactics that they've adopted. ¢ Israel has a supreme interest in "keepin...

Chapter Nine The phone rang in our apartment in Palo Alto at 4:30 in the morning. We had been in the US for barely six weeks. It was the Sixth of October 1973: Yom Kippur, the holiest date on the Jewish calendar. I was still a bit groggy from the night before. We had been out at...

themselves. Every year, new threats arise. And the old ones: Hezbollah, Iran, terrorism —are all "alive and kicking" and growing even stronger. But there is good news too. Israel is the strongest country in the region, from Tripoli in Libya to Tehran. It's the strongest militari...

…eries of intercepts we’d attached to the Egyptians’ main military communications network in the Sinai, and to the telephone poles on the Golan Heights. On a deeply personal level, too, the war left its mark on Sayeret Matkal. Though the fighting had been brief, people did die. T...

…ation to the army, I told him I was thinking of returning after I graduated. Yet before finally deciding, I wanted his honest opinion about my chances, at some point, of being given command of the sayeret. He began with a series of caveats. The choice of future leaders of the say...