Results for “Israel Horovitz”

but there will be no such agreements with the Palestinians or with Syria in the foreseeable future. The Palestinians have taken themselves out of the game for now. We cannot turn from them to the Syrians while Assad’s troops are using howitzers and sniper rifles against his peopl...

led by Netanyahu. Free and democratic Arab countries won’t shrink from supporting this Palestinian right under any circumstances. Muslims will not give up on East Jerusalem

…constant moving of the goal posts and the constraints of the administration's unshakeable political instinct to support Israel.

we will use the term ""Israel"" to connote all of the Hebrew and Jewish entities that have existed in the Levant since the invasion of the region as chronicled in the Book of Joshua. As always

the Sinai has held little attraction for the Egyptians. The difficulty of deploying forces in the eastern Sinai poses severe logistical problems for them

…hough smaller raiding parties could. The tribes of the Arabian Peninsula lack the reach or the size to pose a threat to Israel

a Mediterranean empire that wanted to control both the northern and southern littorals needed to anchor its eastern flank on the Levant. For one thing

it can be a completely independent state. This condition occurs when there are no major imperial powers external to the region. We might call this the David model. Second

this has been impossible. There has been no great power with the appetite and the will for such an adventure. But 15 years is not even a generation

…rafat’s choice of violence over diplomacy, there was a wide international recognition that it was the Palestinians, not Israel, who were responsible. For us to end the Oslo process meant inviting accusations we’d never intended to reach a peace agreement in the first place, and t...

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...

…part of a complete reordering of our conflict with the Arabs. He expected Gemayel’s Lebanon to openly align itself with Israel and expel all Syrian troops. As for the expelled Palestinians, they would go back to Jordan where they would resume — and, this time, win — their civil w...

…ccess at Booz Allen, to go after secret documents from the intelligence services of Britain, Australia. New Zealand and Israel He revealed this operation only after receiving sanctuary in Russia. He told an interviewer that by moving to his new Booz Allen job as an infrastructure...

…n we got back to the command post, not only were Dado and Motta there. Since Motta was within days of leaving to become Israel’s military attaché in Washington, they’d been joined by his successor as head of the northern command, Yitzhak Hofi. Three times, I suggested to Dado tha...

…rize award) and to whom Epstein offers a ride back to Europe on his jet. The next morning, it’s Ehud Barack, the former Israeli Prime Minister and Israel, for breakfast. Barack is, over his omelet, able to defend both Obama and Putin. Then Kathy Ruemmler, who has just left her jo...