Ennahda, which captured 41 percent of the vote in the elections, promised to cooperate with secular parties and show respect for pluralism. Instead, it is sending muddled messages. On Wednesday, Prime Minister Hamadi Jebali made a conciliatory gesture by proposing a temporary non...
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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...
30 | HOW AMERICA LOST ITS SECRETS Snowden still had his security clearance, despite his highly prob- lematic exit from the CIA, because the agency had instituted a policy a few years earlier that allowed voluntarily retiring CIA officers to keep their clearance for two years aft...
Chapter Three: War, Peace, Networks In which The Seventh Sense reaches towards the questions of war and peace and power that will flavor our lives, like it or not. 1. One afternoon in the fall of 2009 I received an unexpected call from the Pentagon. The US was, then, nearly a...
“| can only assume that O’ Brien is either a crank or simply an unethical individual who seeks money, notoriety and/or publicity by inventing sensationalistic lies. Her book is strewn with sex accusations not just about myself, but concerning a parade of high government officials...
Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed,...
Foreign Policy Don't be too sure there won't be another U.S. war in the Middle East Richard L. Russell February 5, 2013 -- Shortly before he left office in Feb. 2011, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told West Point cadets that "in my opinion, any future defense secretary who ad...
/ BARAK / 114 Labor leadership contest. “Shalom, Ehud,” he said when I answered the phone and, without small talk or preliminaries, asked me: “What do you think we should do?” I said I couldn’t offer specific suggestions. “It’s a detail-related question, and I don’t know the de...
generally civil, and often friendly contacts, Israelis had with Palestinians at the time. The local population had, after all, been under other occupation powers before 1967: Jordan in the West Bank, and Egypt in Gaza. Assuming our administration was less onerous, most Israelis b...
dehumanization, and self-deception which each have both beneficial and toxic personalities, so too does globalization. Globalization has integrated developing countries into the global economy and allowed them to profit from new resources and advances. But globalization has also...
spontaneously along with an instantaneous knowing-how-it-is-with-you-and-|l-and- all-of-us that made even vicious killers appear sympathetic. Is this what the Charismatic New Testament Book Churches mean by redemption through forgiveness of others, requiring the genuine sincerity...
showing my feelings, beyond my immediate family and a few close friends. When I was in the army, this wasn’t an issue. Self-control, especially in high- pressure situations, was a highly valued asset. But in politics, I think that it did for a considerable time inhibit my ability...
armies: one-and-a-half million soldiers. Thousands of tanks. Hundreds of fighter jets. Other, much larger nations had endured months, even years, of hell before prevailing in such circumstances: the Soviet Union, for instance, with its huge strategic depth, or France, rescued by...
But a series of accidents, in Israel’s life and in mine, would soon point me in a dramatically different direction. The first became known as the Rotem Crisis, and it delivered a jolting reminder of Israel’s vulnerability to a surprise attack from neighboring Arab states. Militar...
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...