Results for “Yitzhak Rabin”

Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d

things like the unfortunate American redefinition of Yitzhak’s “pocket

the veteran whom I’d urged Yitzhak to bring back for

and to redeem and continue all that Yitzhak had sacrificed.

was Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Ideologically

Yitzhak had asked him to take over. He’d

he remained personally close to Yitzhak.

emotional attachment to our historic capital. “Yitzhak would never have

“rotation” with Yitzhak Shamir, so that he could be in the government. He proposed the ideal of “national unity,” and greatly devalued the democratic concept of parliamentary opposition. Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ruined her reputation when she refused to join Netanyahu...

…e point I’d made to Clinton during the summit: a@// Israelis had a deep, emotional attachment to our historic capital. “Yitzhak would never have agreed to compromise on the Old City and the Temple Mount,” Leah said, 375 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011846

…rly three decades before the two of us actually met — shortly after the assassination of my longtime comrade and friend Yitzhak Rabin, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he an...

…nterim period had yet to begin. In one respect, I had some sympathy for Bibi’s predicament. The reason I'd tried to get Yitzhak to alter the terms of Oslo II was that it required us to hand back control before we knew what a “permanent- status” peace deal would look like. But whe...

…briefly at the end of my officer’s course but who I would come to know well, and work closely with, in the years ahead: Yitzhak Rabin. The helicopter lifted off at about six-thirty at night. Compared to special operations nowadays, the mission still had a somewhat improvised fee...

… than a new relationship between Israelis and Palestinians based on trust. As I would discover in the months ahead — as Yitzhak had found as well — Arafat responded warmly to such general appeals of principle. He replied that he viewed me as a partner, and a friend. But the key i...

… establish a state came only later, after my many years in uniform, and especially when, as deputy chief-of-staff under Yitzhak Rabin, we were faced with the explosion of violence in the West Bank and Gaza that became known as the first intifada. And while my determination as Pri...