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called the South Lebanon Army. This would rule out any hope of
the Iranian-backed Shiite militia in Lebanon was not just targeting Israeli
our frank exchanges on Lebanon seemed to
to get air support, but the commander of our artillery force called in all available units, and they drew a kind of protective box of shellfire around Ira’s men as they moved back. We sent our other reserve division towards the crossroads to provide support, and Amram went with t...
harsh treatment of dissents and a crackdown on journalists. While Egypt is headed down the path of autocracy, this does not suggest the futility of change or of promoting democracy in Egypt, nor, say, that the Arab Spring was a failure. Autocracy will not be a permanent fix for t...
/ BARAK / 4 reason, that was absurd. Near the end of the campaign, there was going be a head- to-head television debate. In the meantime, though Bibi might be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Isr...
/ BARAK / 29 Minister. But fewer and fewer Israelis were enthusiastic about four more years of Bibi. But I also was keen to convey the substance of what my premiership would be about. Domestically, I spoke of the need to narrow gaps in education and opportunity — particularly, t...
reality is often messier. In part, that has to do with compartmentalization of Hezbollah's covert activities. It is also, however, a result of the group's multiple identities -- Lebanese, pan-Shiite, pro- Iranian -- and the group's multiple and sometimes competing goals tied to t...
OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi List of Abbreviations AHLC Ad Hoc Liaison Committee ICJ International Court of Justice IDF Israel Defense Forces JLC Joint Liaison Committee LACC Local Aid Coordination Committee LAF Lebanese Armed Forces LAS League of Arab Stat...
14 world Jewry. Such a resolution is supported by four facts: All attempts to establish two states have ended in failure; the Jewish and Palestinian populations are too intertwined to separate except forcibly which would constitute apartheid; the physical geography and natural r...
/ BARAK/ 51 couldn’t guarantee anything. In the months ahead I would come to understand what that meant, because it would happen again. I don’t think Arafat himself orchestrated the violence. Maybe he couldn’t have stopped it completely. But I have no doubt — nor did President C...
OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi Chronology xxvii 13 June 2007 Shimon Peres is elected President of Israel by the Knesset. 14 June 2007 President Abbas dismisses Prime Minister Haniyeh and declares a state of emergency. 15 June 2007 Hamas takes control over the Gaz...
5 freedom, independence, and sovereignty -- at the hand of a foreign power, namely Iran. The Syrian uprisings may have already deepened the sectarian divide in Lebanon, raising once more the specter of civil war and making more difficult the task of forming a new government, a j...
Barely two months after the ambush operation in south Lebanon, Black September seized and murdered members of the Israeli team at the 1972 Olympics in Munich. As soon as the news broke on the morning of September 5, I phoned Ahrahle Yariv as head of military intelligence. “You n...