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…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...

…ct on the course of our conflict with the Arabs, and on the prospects of eventually finding a way to make peace. It was Israel’s largest military action since the war, across our new de facto border with Jordan. And it was directed at a new enemy: a fledgling army of Palestinian...

… by all of them together. This too 1s not a mere assessment. ¢ The claim that the events of the past year "prove" that Israel's vital security needs are incompatible with the "two-state solution" — is false. And I'm stating this as a professional position, not a political opinio...

…g Rabin’s first spell as Prime Minister in the 1970s, it was over a violation of the Jewish Sabbath. It turned out that Israel’s state electric company had been transporting a huge steam- condensation machine from the manufacturing site near Haifa to a power plant in Ashdod. The...

…reat was still there. Egypt, in particular, still seemed determined to find a way to hobble, and if possible eliminate, Israel. But especially since the 1956 war, the fedayeen attacks, and cross-border skirmishes, had been subsiding. Not long after the second Sinai intercept miss...

…me, and our hillutz, or back-up. A hillutz was always a part of sayeret operations. The back-up group would stay on the Israeli side of the border. If we got into trouble, they’d come in after us. Even after my briefing for the chief of staff, we had one last stop to make on the...

… régime.” Iran had told him no. Given its support for Hizbollah, and its serial diatribes about destroying the State of Israel, this was hardly a surprise. But it was a gesture nonetheless, and I told him I appreciated it. I also arrived with a gift: a leather-bound volume with b...

…here was no clear sign at this stage which one of us had won. But the exit poll findings came as a shock: Barak, of One Israel, 58.5 percent; Netanyahu, Likud, 41.5 percent. It was a landslide. The full impact hit me only when I got to the fifth-floor suite in the Dan Hotel in T...

…upted. “Gentlemen,” he said, “we are not in company commanders’ course. We’re in the inner cabinet of the government of Israel. We have a chief of staff and other generals and military professionals. It’s their job to decide the operational details. Our job is to balance the reas...

…l foundation. As I drove back to Tel Aviv with Avraham and the others on the morning of fourth day of the war, we heard Israeli ground forces were consolidating their hold there as well. After dropping Avraham at the kirya, we drove back to the sayeret base, but it was nearly em...

…do we. We never expected, and will never ask others to fight for us — yet the US has deployed advanced radar systems in Israel to provide early warning against long-range missiles, and holds military exercises on our soil and in the Mediterranean , preparing an American response...

…unior officer in 1967. His name was Ron Ben-Ishai. He would go on to become a top journalist, covering the military for Israel’s best-selling newspaper, Yediot Achronot. In the early autumn of 1967, we were still transfixed by the idea of being able to visit areas of biblical Isr...

medium-range missiles unable to reach Israel. It has no second strike capability. As President Ahmadinejad stressed during his visit to Cairo last week, Iran has no intention of attacking Israel. Its posture is purely defensive. If Obama were to act with boldness and vision, he...

….” I tried to keep my voice steady when I replied. I explained that the issues we were addressing went to the heart of Israel’s interests, its future security, its identity and definition as a nation. I had a responsibility to tread carefully. Then, my voice rising too, I came b...

…s Sent: 4/23/2015 1:34:41 PM To: Epstein Jeffrey [[email protected]] Subject: Fwd: What Iran nuke deal means for Israel: Enud Barak Hi Jeff Bill Clinton 1994. Food for thought. EB http://video.cnbc.com/gallery/?video=3000369298 Sent from my iPhone HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028...