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…in the day, but if that went well, it seemed the only practical alternative. Motta and I went met Peres around 8:30am. Shimon had no first-hand military experience, having played a political role alongside Ben-Gurion from Israel’s early years. So he was not really interested in...

The Shimon Post 4 June, 2011 Article 1. NYT President Assad’s Bloody Hands Editorial Article 2. | The Washington Post Egypt’s revolutionary justice Editorial Article 3. | Al Ahram Weekly Egypt: In search of a foreign policy Mohamed Anis Salem Anicle | Foreign Policy Do t...

…lew to Israel to convey the request to Yossi Beilin, then Deputy Foreign Minister. Shortly afterwards, Foreign Minister Shimon Peres dispatched the Director General of the ministry, Uri Savir, and the head of the ministry’s legal department, Joel Singer, to Oslo. The Norwegians h...

…o Lahat, a Likud mayor of Tel Aviv who now backed Oslo, and a French Jewish businessman named Jean Frydman, a friend of Shimon Peres whom I had got to know and like. But in several of the early planning discussions in which I was involved, Rabin was against the rally, which was t...

…et Gorbachev again. This time, under the most unusual of circumstances. He was in Israel at the invitation of President Shimon Peres to help celebrate Israel’s 60" birthday. I was there for the same reason. I had just appeared on a panel with Vaclav Havel and with Natan Sharansky...

The Shimon Post at \ Presidential Press Bulletin 29 March, 2011 Article 1. | Foreign Policy The Syrian Time Bomb Patrick Seale Article 2. | Politico Obama failing as commander in chief Robert D. Blackwill Article 3. | The Financial Times Libya, a last hurrah for the west...

…ent for any candidate, I met with him to press the case for “security and peace,” the message I’d tried to advance with Shimon three years earlier, and to emphasize the need to bring unity and shared purpose back to the country. Though I think he would have been receptive anyway,...

…. To my amusement, if not altogether to my surprise, I got word that Bibi was putting out separate political feelers to Shimon Peres. But before long, it became clear there was a specific political motivation behind his approaching me. It was indeed the peace process. But it wasn...

… spoke with Prime Minister Netanyahu and thanked him for his service to the State of Israel.” Then — with both Leah and Shimon Peres at my side — I paid tribute to “that one special person who had a unique role in our reaching this moment — somebody who was my commander and guide...

…cision that, under both Rabin and Peres, we’d delayed out of concern about inflaming tensions with the Palestinians. As Shimon rightly said publicly after the three days of violence that followed, we understood that, at a minimum, it would need to be coordinated beforehand with A...

…Israeli politics, society and culture from the start: Palmachniks like Rabin and Dado; political players like Golda and Shimon Peres; Haganah veterans like Dayan and Bar-Lev; and, of course, the kibbutznik pioneers. Almost all were of East European background — 180 HOUSE_OVERSIG...

The shimon Post ~ Presidential Press Bulletin 17 November, 2011 Article 1. NYT U.S. Hones Warnings to Egypt as Military Stalls Transition David D. Kirkpatrick and Steven Lee Myers Article 2. NYT Europe’s Contagion Editorial Article 3. | New York Post High stakes in Syria...

…alism that had been the hallmark of negotiations between Yasir Arafat and three Israeli Prime Ministers, Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres, and Benjamin Netanyahu, favoring a more comprehensive approach to the peace process. For the first half of 2000, Arafat and the Palestinians were...

…. To my amusement, if not altogether to my surprise, I got word that Bibi was putting out separate political feelers to Shimon Peres. But before long, it became clear there was a specific political motivation behind his approaching me. It was indeed the peace process. But it wasn...

… Motta’s operations meeting with the general staff, often attended by the man who’d followed Dayan as defense minister, Shimon Peres. The analysis of military intelligence included separate teams for Egypt and Syria, Jordan and Lebanon, Iraq and other neighboring states, as well...