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… my own role was slightly less peripheral was due to Avraham Arnan. He phoned me almost as soon as we’d got news of the Israeli air victory, and told me he had been told to take a few men from the sayeret across the southern border. Our assignment was to complete our failed attem...

8 reality to portray Fatah as colluding with Israel against the Palestinian people during a confrontation. For its part, Hamas has the support of Islamists in the region, including Shiite Iranians, but that is an explosive mix to base a strategy on. Hamas must break its isolati...

…hose peculiar facts which must be called free-floating” and concluded with a veiled threat to both American Jews and to Israel: “To put the matter brutally, many American Jewish leaders were capable of ignoring the Asian holocaust in favor of economic and military aid to Israel ....

…ngular, unifying force that might suffice to break the military's power, or at least to force the military to shift its Israeli policy. Hamas in conflict with Israel as the United Nations votes for a Palestinian state also places Fatah on the political defensive among the Palesti...

3 to either Israel or Egypt and it will be delivered by truck. Sea access must remain blocked to prevent weapons smuggling. The Israeli position defies a brutal truth: last year’s flotilla made a big difference for the people of Gaza — at a terrible cost in lives — by refocusin...

…ed by its American-led allies, during World War Two. But any pride in having prevailed was outweighed by simple relief Israel had survived. Even that was nothing compared to the sadness felt over friends lost, and the resentment and sense of betrayal toward the generals and poli...

…Islamic Republic of Iran and the Lebanese Shiite resistance movement Hezbollah, Syria is viewed with great hostility by Israel and with wary suspicion by the United States. The Tehran-Damascus- Hezbollah axis -- of which Syria is the linchpin -- has long been seen by many leaders...

peace with all four neighboring Arab states. And it can be argued now that Assad may see negotiations with Israel as a way to climb back from the pariah status he is earning, making him at this juncture truly open to a new peace process. Such thinking, whether in Jerusalem or th...

…conciliation agreement after the failure to implement the Cairo deal. Mohamed Morsi is sworn in as President of Egypt. Israel launches Operation ‘Pillar of Defense’ in Gaza. Gaza War II: Israel and Hamas unilateral cease-fire. President Abbas’s speech to the UN General Assembly...

…Gulf correspondent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, is available. As Americans, Israelis and Palestinians continue their endless peace-jockeying, a more hopeful solution has emerged. It is a fresh Arab initiative that depends neither on Ame...

e And this isn't yust an assessment. ¢ We must remember, vis-a-vis the Palestinians, Israel can (practically only) give. Regarding the rest of the moderate Arab world — Israel can also get, and a lot.. Not just recognition and legitimacy but also an opportunity for regional infr...

…Yasir Arafat dies. The Executive Committee of the PLO elects Mahmoud Abbas as its leader. Agreement between Egypt and Israel on Qualifying Industrial Zones. Mahmoud Abbas elected President of the Palestinian Authority. Assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafic Hari...

…lly set off by Syrian efforts to divert water from the upper reaches of the Jordan River, an important water source for Israel was well. In a series of exchanges, Syrian troops on the Golan fired on Israeli tractors in the demilitarized zone below, and began shelling our argicult...

…e crucially what had not happened, was bound to have serious consequences, both for me personally, as Prime Minister of Israel, and for my country. But I had been a politician, at that point, for all of five years. By far most of my life, I had spent in uniform. As a teenager, s...

Chapter Five Almost no one in Israel knew what we had done. But the next morning, a package arrived at the Sayeret Matkal base from one of the few people who did. We opened it in Avraham’s office. It was a nearly full carton of champagne: real, French champagne, since it would b...