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the Arabs had been at the receiving end of Western power

which is to dissuade the Palestinians and Arabs

3 Alas, though, the main strategy of Iran, Syria, Hezbollah and Hamas will be to drag Israel into the Arab story — as a way of deflecting attention away from how these anti-democratic regimes are repressing their own people and to further delegitimize Israel, by making sure it r...

…isons between Zionism and apartheid, with some delegates drawing a parallel “between Nazi policies against the Jews and Israeli brutalities against the people of Palestine.” When the General Assembly itself finally addressed the Cambodian genocide in a resolution, it did so in t...

…uthority of the Palestinians, and as few as possible under our rule.” Amnon’s bottom line was that we could not give up Israeli sovereignty over the Temple Mount, which, although he was a non-observant Jew, he called “the cradle of Jewish history.” But equally, we couldn’t and sh...

…st time I got a sense that any of this might be having an impact was in a quote from a Yisrael Ba’Aliyah official in an Israeli newspaper. Though still stopping short of a formal endorsement, the official was quoted as saying: “A month ago, young Russians thought Barak was a bori...

…d started. And I extended a hand to “secular and religious, the ultra-Orthodox and the residents of the settlements, to Israelis of Middle Eastern origin and Ashkenazi extraction, to immigrants from Eithopia and the former Soviet Union, to the Arabs, the Druze, the Circassians, t...

…uggle and intrigue. During the heady days of the peace process, he became a key point of contact for the Americans, the Israelis, the Arabs, and much of the rest of the international community. I came to know Erekat not only as a negotiator, but as a person. He sent his kids to...

Chapter Fourteen It began with an accident. On Tuesday, December 8, 1987, an Israeli tank transporter crashed into a minibus carrying Palestinians from the Jabalya refugee camp near the main crossing from Gaza into Israel. Four passengers were killed. By the time of the funeral...

…the violence, Arafat at first simply lied. He said the Palestinian violence was in response to an unprovoked assault by Israeli troops, and demanded an international “protection” force. There was a particularly bizarre moment when I read out the names of individual Tanzim leaders...

… political stature. These were major incentives to move the Organization into what was to become the Oslo process. The Israeli leadership also had its reasons to come to the negotiating table. The rise of satellite television channels, such as CNN, beamed live images around the...

…the violence, Arafat at first simply lied. He said the Palestinian violence was in response to an unprovoked assault by Israeli troops, and demanded an international “protection” force. There was a particularly bizarre moment when I read out the names of individual Tanzim leaders...

…Clinton I could speak only for how I would respond if a state was indeed declared without a peace deal. “We will extend Israeli sovereignty over the major settlement blocs. We will establish a security zone in the Jordan valley, and let them know that there will be a heavy price...

… Syria ends its military presence in Lebanon. Israel pulls out of the Gaza Strip. Agreement on Movement and Access. Israeli Prime Minister Sharon is incapacitated. Ehud Olmert becomes interim Prime Minister. Hamas wins Palestinian Legislative Council elections. Quartet Stat...

…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...