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…l of the main missile sites we had identified. The whole operation lasted a week. Hamas fired nearly 1,500 rockets into Israel, not just locally manufactured Qassems but longer-range Iranian Fajr-5s and Russian Grads. For the first time since the 1991 Gulf war, several were targe...

…im leaders that he would be conciliatory once he took office, and that he was not about to consider a formal peace with Israel. He had also been resisting Israeli efforts to make an early, public show of friendship, such as an official visit to meet Prime Minister Begin. But ther...

…ties without hard-headed analysis, even a dose of scepticism. But the opportunities are undeniably there, and never has Israel risked paying a higher price for failing to see and at least to try to act on them. The first port of call should still be the Palestinians. I have repe...

…t they were doing, and what how and when they were planning to advance. As speculation mounted after the war about how Israel seemed to know so much the Arab forces, Meir Amit’s successor as Head of Military Intelligence, Ahrahle Yariv, even engaged in some misdirection. He was...

…m behind and Yoni’s and Uzi’s men in front, the convoy was trapped, and the Syrians captured. The safest way back into Israel would have been the way the force had entered. But Yoni and Uzi realized the main imperative was to get the Syrians out as quickly as possible. At a not-...

… was still a bit groggy from the night before. We had been out at a get-to-know-you event for some of the several dozen Israelis, and several hundred American Jewish students, at Stanford. While I only vaguely recognized the voice on the other end of the line, her words instantly...

Israel saw in France a patron that was not in a

…fman, who was one of the defendants, had allegedly made some crude remarks about how his “Jew lawyers” cared more about Israel than America. I called him out on his comments in a brief note, to which he responded with an angry handwritten two page letter which included the follow...

…arak Sent: 4/23/2015 1:34:41 PM To: Epstein Jeffrey [[email protected]] Subject: Fwd: What Iran nuke deal means for Israel: Ehud Barak Hi Jeff Bill Clinton 1994. Food for thought. EB http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=30003 69298 Sent from my iPhone HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028486

…was not until mid- 2010, a year into Bibi’s government, that I was confident we’d reached that point, in part thanks to Israeli-produced heavy bombs and tanker aircraft. Our experts estimated we would still be able to set back the Iranian nuclear efforts by up to four years, almo...

Dershowitz details chat about Israel with president at his estate - The Bo... https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/politics/2017/04/06/dershowitz-detai... Subscribe Members | Starting at 99 cents Sign In with president at his estate By Annie Linskey GLOBE STAFF APRIL 07, 2017 WAS...

…cies that had helped deliver my landslide victory barely 18 months earlier: my own Labor Party and the Arab citizens of Israel. I had no trouble understanding the reasons many Israeli Arabs were abandoning me. The clashes in the Galilee at the start of the new intifada had left m...

… Syrian response, but Syrian notice. The reactor was destroyed. Although even today the exact details remain subject to Israel’s military secrecy regulations, accounts published abroad in the weeks and months that followed painted a surprisingly accurate picture, including the pi...

…assume, for a moment, that he is,” I said. He’s not some junior lieutenant... This is a man who has risked his life for Israel. Repeatedly. Under fire.” Then, I got to the real issue. “I hesitate to mention this,” I said, realizing, and in a way hoping, that my tone would sound v...

…mobile launchers. Colin stressed the efforts the Americans were making from the air, and the commitment they’d shown to Israel. Not only had they delivered the Patriots. They had allocated their best fighter jets, F-15E’s, to the task of taking out the Scuds. It helped that he an...