Results for “Operation Peace for Galilee”

/ BARAK / 44 Western envoys who had seen the Syrian president, that Assad’s many years of health problems had left him almost skeletally frail, even at times disoriented. Even my own negotiating team urged me to concentrate on the Palestinians instead. President Clinton kept st...

/ BARAK / 98 in legal and diplomatic terms, null and void. The package Arafat had ultimately rejected had not even been presented by me. It was an American proposal. Besides, it was obvious no serious negotiations were going to happen anyway for the foreseeable future. Arik, how...

votes: one for a party list and one for a directly elected Prime Minister. This would be a personal test, an opportunity for Shimon to build on the still-tenuous achievement of Oslo and finally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even ha...

Chapter Sixteen Rabin had inherited a peace process, put in motion by the Bush Administration after the Gulf War. But since both Prime Minister Shamir and our Arab enemies had reasons of procedure, politics or principle to resist the talks, merely getting them off the ground had...

218 Snowden to come to Russia. Putin’s s decision no doubt set in motion the operation to exfiltrate him on Aeroflot, the state-controlled airline. We know that the Russian government acted in advance to facilitate Snowden’s trip from Hong Kong. Without such an intervention, it...

in part justified his press operation as a defense against Bannon’s press operation.

…Israel to be cowering in shelters during the final stretch of the campaign. So on April 11, he ordered a major military operation in Lebanon. I wasn’t party to the discussions about the operation. But the model chosen was similar to the one I’d drawn up in 1994: a large-scale ai...

…eaded back to join the others, he told me that only a few hours ago, he had briefed American commanders on an anti-Scud operation by “allied forces” like the one we were planning. “It will happen,” he assured me. “Within 48 hours.” That task fell to Britain’s SAS. The operation...

…best to bring things to an end as soon as you can.” I said that Halutz and the other generals would be caught up in the operational details, which made his role and that of the cabinet even more critical. “In any operation, you’ll have an idea about what represents a satisfactory...

…eaded back to join the others, he told me that only a few hours ago, he had briefed American commanders on an anti-Scud operation by “allied forces” like the one we were planning. “It will happen,” he assured me. “Within 48 hours.” That task fell to Britain’s SAS. The operation...

Dan began the next morning’s briefing with a stage-by-stage review of how the operation would unfold. But just as he was getting to the detail of the motorcade attack, I felt a young sayeret officer tap me on the shoulder. Kuti had phoned to say I was to go see him at the kirya....

…eement 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 on Palestine’s...

…announcement the U.S. would no longer fund the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) because it is an "irredeemably flawed operation." Historically, the United States was the organization's biggest funder — in 2017, the U.S. covered nearly one-third of the agency's budget of $1.1 bi...

…announcement the U.S. would no longer fund the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNWRA) because it is an "irredeemably flawed operation." Historically, the United States was the organization's biggest funder — in 2017, the U.S. covered nearly one-third of the agency's budget of $1.1 bi...

…ed: “When I was 20 years younger than you are, I never waited for someone like Ben-Gurion or Dayan to ask me to plan an operation. I would plan it! Then I’d take it to them and say, you’re the politicians, you decide, but if you say yes, we'll do it.” I smiled, telling him that I...