Results for “Yitzhak Shamir”

The President responded by suggesting we go to the Pentagon and talk in greater detail about how, for both our countries’ benefit, that could be avoided. When we convened in Secretary Cheney’s office, I delivered the same message, but more forcefully. I felt it was essential not...

The President responded by suggesting we go to the Pentagon and talk in greater detail about how, for both our countries’ benefit, that could be avoided. When we convened in Secretary Cheney’s office, I delivered the same message, but more forcefully. I felt it was essential not...

…momentous ceremony on the the astonishing, White House lawn in September behind-the-scenes negotiations that 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli resulted in the historic Oslo Accords prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, in 1993, won a Tony for Best Play on the PLO chairman, shaki...

…At that stage, there was no discussion of whether we actually would, or should, target Saddam. I asked Misha, and then Yitzhak, only whether such an operation might seriously be considered by the government. If not, I said, we’d drop it. Both replied that we should go ahead wit...

…he operations, I’d be either in the kirva or a forward command post. Since nearly all of them happened after nightfall, Yitzhak would usually be back home, asleep, by the time they ended. I would phone him. The trademark voice — slow, gravelly, deep even when he was wide awake —...

…tunity? Saeb Erekat: Though I was not the chief negotiator at that moment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, including myself, feel that peace was possible. There was significant progress in all tracks unti...

…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...

…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 that we speak without my officers present. I did not feel it was nght to have Uzi, Mookie and Bibi hear me the ge...

…g a tracheotomy. But his speech was affected, and he still had almost no use of his right arm. Errol, Micha Kapusta and Yitzhak Gibli were more actively involved with us. They were there not only to help train us, but to instill a commando aftitude, a spirit of confidence borderi...

… in much the same vein when President Clinton urged me to help kick- start new talks with Assad by formally reaffirming Yitzhak’s “pocket deposit” on the Golan Heights. As with the Palestinians, I was not going to cede a major negotiating card — our only real negotiating card — b...

…ue role in our reaching this moment — somebody who was my commander and guide, and the person who led me into politics: Yitzhak Rabin. I pledged to fulfil his legacy, and complete the work he’d started. And I extended a hand to “secular and religious, the ultra-Orthodox and the r...

…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...

…th his final message from the chopper: “Out of the fog. Heading home.” With the rest of the team, I was invited to see Yitzhak Rabin ten days later. We were being given a further tzalash. This was the first time I'd met him since leaving officers’ school two years earlier, when,...