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… Mar-a-Lago club in Florida was a chance to dine and catch up with old friends. Then President Trump showed up. “Everyone stood up and clapped,” recalled Dershowitz, who lives in South Florida during the Massachusetts winters. Toward the end of the evening, Trump stopped by t...

/ BARAK / 104 I did regret being unable to rely on the support of two key constituencies that had helped deliver my landslide victory barely 18 months earlier: my own Labor Party and the Arab citizens of Israel. I had no trouble understanding the reasons many Israeli Arabs were...

…ccounts published abroad in the weeks and months that followed painted a surprisingly accurate picture, including the pioneering use of electronic warfare capabilities to deal with risk of radar detection. But in the immediate aftermath of the attack, Israel deliberately made no...

…y empty. The main fighting was now with Syrian armored units on the Golan Heights, and most of the men in the unit had gone north in the hope of joining what seemed likely to be the final stage of the war. Although the precise outcome was not yet clear, there was a dawning certai...

from the massacre was that the mix of Jewish settlers, some of whom felt they were on a messianic mission to resettle all of Biblical Israel, and restive Palestinians who wanted sovereignty and control over their own lives was potentially toxic, for both sides. Ideally, the proce...

4 educated and potentially high-achieving population that is trapped with no horizon. Pressure needs to be maintained to end the siege entirely, they say, and talk of improvement is counterproductive. The recent changes stem from a combination of Israeli policy shifts and the ch...

… night. He spoke of standing with Israel to pursue peace, but didn't mention Palestinians or the peace process. He mentioned his own trip to the Middle East, but missed an opportunity to give what might be a trip to the region by his new secretary of state higher profile. It's ju...

…. It was, above all, about thinking and analyzing — and always, always, looking and planning ahead. And as our plane droned onward towards Israel, I knew that I would now need all of those qualities more than ever. 8 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011479

…ccounts published abroad in the weeks and months that followed painted a surprisingly accurate picture, including the pioneering use of electronic warfare capabilities to deal with risk of radar detection. But in the immediate aftermath of the attack, Israel deliberately made no...

/ BARAK / 103 points. It would amount to retaining control over around 20 percent of the West Bank, but none of the major Arab towns or cities. Though deliberately stopping well short of share of the West Bank Arafat could have secured through a negotiated peace, it would remove...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

…iversity School of Medicine, with whom CTT Producer/Director Peter Getzels and I spoke with at length today. Patrick is one of the leading sleep and dream researchers (he himself more dreams). More importantly, he is perhaps the leading chronicler of the field, with many publicat...

… political levels as well. How these twin expansions would take place has everything to do with context. All wars have one. Would a U.S.-Iran war break out during a protracted diplomatic process, or in the absence or abeyance of one? Would it happen during a period of increasing...

…en she decided to dust around the boxes under our beds. She’d never given them much thought. But when she tried to move one of them, she was amazed by its weight. She got one her sons- in-law to help. I think the box he pried open first was Moshe’s. But within a few minutes he’d...

…port would waver if there was a resumption of serious peace negotiations. Still, as Clinton continued to insist we make one final attempt to get a deal, I felt we had a responsibility to play our part. I wasn’t prepared to put us in the position of appearing to stoneweall his eff...