Results for “State of Israel”

the Sinai War touched me directly. I never felt Israel’s

just inside Israel’s pre-1967 border with the West Bank

of course. For all of Israel’s strengths in that

naive or tone-deaf to interests and security of Israel

following Israel’s victory in the Six Day War of 1967)

4.2.12 WC: 191694 David Ben Gurion.” The next day they were on a plane to Israel, and that afternoon Kronheim was standing on the balcony of the Prime Minister’s house being photographed. “Ok, here’s the final challenge: maybe among Jews and Americans, you’re famous, but you'll...

4.2.12 WC: 191694 about the situation in Israel and eventually about Iran, and invited me to the White House for lunch to continue our discussion. 365 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_017452

July 1, now less than 36 hours away. Having moved the passengers off the plane to one of the terminal buildings, they were threatening to start killing them unless we freed a list of 53 Palestinians and PLO supporters, forty of them held in Israel and the rest in a number of Euro...

Now that we were in a fight —the single fiercest battle in Israel’s advance across the Sinai — Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan reacted swiftly. Standing tall amid the shellfire and the flames, he radioed for supporting fire, only to be told that none of our artillery batteries was withi...

responsibility sermons of Reformed Judaism and the Unitarians as well as the 19" Century hymns and high |.Q. apologetics of some Presbyterian and Methodist clergy, are like near beer. Formally equivalent but without the rush and the delicious risk and promise of life long addicti...

/ BARAK / 28 The next key moment in the campaign involved something I did not do. This time, the Israeli television debate came earlier in the campaign, a month before the election. Bibi, Yitzhik Mordechai and I were all invited, as the three main candidates. But I told the TV p...

…he created the impression that I was the first sentient, intelligent human being he’d ever met. He made no grand policy statements. Mostly, he asked me questions: what were the prospects of Arafat reining in Hamas and Islamic Jihad? How were our relations going with King Hussein?...

/ BARAK / 54 Chapter Twenty-One President Clinton and I met the next morning. My aim was to persuade him that the time had come for a make-or-break summit with Yasir Arafat. I suspected it would not be easy to convince him, and it wasn’t. But I made the argument that if we wer...

…ly against the backdrop of the drawn-out talks — Israel has an interest in maximizing its understanding with the United States and trying to convince it of the need for determination and perseverance; for HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028899

/ BARAK / 67 simply to withdraw the paper. Clinton’s answer encouraged, and surprised, me. “We agree,” he said. “The paper no longer exists.” It soon turned out the Palestinians were unhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistenc...