12 ordinary Syrians. A dialogue of the deaf ensued. The Assads’ intense preoccupation with external crises led them to neglect the internal scene. Who would need political freedoms, they no doubt thought, if given the benefits of security and stability? As the regime’s official...
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/ BARAK / 139 worth noting that the conflict remained conventional. Iran was different. Only the most naive observer would exclude the possibility that if the Iranians did get a nuclear weapon, they might use it. And even if they didn’t, the entire strategic picture would change...
/ BARAK / 125 Chapter Twenty-Five I had hoped that in facing down the nuclear threat from Iran, I could nudge Bibi towards a reengagement with the Palestinians — not with great enthusiasm, but as an act of pure political pragmatism. There were only two ways we could stop the Ir...
196 Teaching Minds faculty to handle 60 courses with fewer than 20 students in each class, you have a problem. Multiple sections of courses require multiple fac- ulty and maybe even, God forbid, heavier teaching loads. Simply put, if there are too many majors, all the specialty...
A few weeks later, my term as commander ended. The handover to my successor, Giora Zorea, turned out to be more elaborate than my arrival, though not at my instigation. With both Talik and Avraham in attendance, Dado presented me with my fifth tza/ash. It was not for Beirut. Not...
17 pragmatically manage our differences now seems, in the current environment, both naive and quixotic. Promote Transparency Follow-on congressional oversight will go far toward educating the Congress, the media, and the public about these important topics. The issues are comp...
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...
4 about how to deal with the growing protests has led to increasingly violent confrontations inside the regime between would-be reformers and hard-liners. The outcome of this internal contest remains uncertain. What is certain, however, is that what happens in Syria is of great...
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¢ Let us be clear —a nuclear Iran is a central threat to the entire world order, not just Israel. A nuclear [ran means the end of the non-proliferation regime— Saudi Arabia, within months, Turkey within a few years and Egypt might follow as well—and all will become nuclear. e Ev...
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… to advertise its products. e Local manufacturing and distribution network would add execution risks and costs to international retailers such as Inditex: While Saudi Arabia has not yet provided the details and conditions of the potential eased restrictions on foreign investors,...
…h proved to be, the Oslo Accords would not have been possible without the dramatic changes taking place within the international system at the time. The PLO had been financially dependent on the states of the Arab Gulf and the Communist bloc. The collapse of the Soviet Union and...
to maintain the status quo. He had unintentionally revealed the true nature of the threat he perceived. What he rea//y said to me was, “So you like the evolution of human consciousness, huh?” “Well, yeah,” | thought, “now that you mention it, | do. | mean, when you put it like t...
John Humphrys is the Radio 4 Today programme presenter, whose forensic and sometimes aggressive interviews with figures in authority inspire love and loathing in equal measure. The Observer's television critic once wrote that if he ever found himself sitting next to Humphrys at a...