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[DECEMBER DRAFT--- 287 pages] THE SNOWDEN AFFAIR A Spy Story in Six Parts By Edward Jay Epstein CONTENTS PROLOGUE On the Snowden Trail: Hong Kong 2014...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

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...

Lod. Two days later, Israeli television received a videotape showing the 19- year-old, hands and feet bound, pleading for his life in return for the release of the founder of Hamas, whom we had arrested and jailed in 1989. “The group from Hamas kidnapped me,” he said. “They are d...

…n accident. On Tuesday, December 8, 1987, an Israeli tank transporter crashed into a minibus carrying Palestinians from the Jabalya refugee camp near the main crossing from Gaza into Israel. Four passengers were killed. By the time of the funerals the next day, a rumor had sprea...

/ BARAK / 121 But both Olmert and Tzipi soon fell prey to the same self-defeating temptation that had worried me during the meandering war against Hizbollah. Our ground incursion began a few days into the operation. The intention was to stay for a few more days and then, respond...

was “Get Gaza out of Tel Aviv!” Labor ended up gaining five Knesset

and an initial Israeli withdrawal limited to Gaza — would lead to serious

let Egypt take Gaza. Let them deal with it. Or sink

Israel was in control of Gaza and the whole of the Sinai.

we did so. The one lasting gain came in Gaza. On their way out

one Salafi-jihadist preacher declared Gaza to

Hamas is the government of Gaza -- and terrorism helped

and that even in Gaza the pullout seemed insufficiently prepared or thought

OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi The Crooked Course: Step by Step on the Path to Peace INTRODUCTION As Immanuel Kant observed, “out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.” And the Middle East peace process is no exception. It runs a crook...