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One of the captured Golani soldiers was a 19-year-old named Uri Ilan, the son of a member of the Israeli Knesset whom Ben-Gurion and the whole of the government knew well. The soldiers’ captivity dragged on until they were finally returned to Israel in March 1956. By then, howeve...

…to leave, a Clinton aide approached and said the President had asked whether I'd like to join him on the flight back to Israel. Though as surprised as I was by the invitation, Shimon nodded at me to signal it was okay, so I headed off for Air Force One. I spent most of the brief...

…¢ The challenge for us is based on there being, apparently, only one way to achieve that; and the upcoming elections in Israel force us to put it on hold for a few months. ¢ And the way to do it is this: a strong, self-confident Israel, willing to hold serious negotiations with...

/ BARAK / 29 Minister. But fewer and fewer Israelis were enthusiastic about four more years of Bibi. But I also was keen to convey the substance of what my premiership would be about. Domestically, I spoke of the need to narrow gaps in education and opportunity — particularly, t...

…he Oslo process along its current, meandering path. But even though Bibi had slowed it down, that would inevitably mean Israel handing back yet more West Bank land to Arafat — in return for familiar, but still unfulfilled and untested, verbal assurances that he wanted peace. Each...

… different thing. And this perception only reinforces Iran's obduracy and the delaying tactics that they've adopted. e Israel has a supreme interest in "keeping all the options on the table". However, today, mostly against the backdrop of the drawn-out talks — Israel has an inte...

…nhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistence that Camp David was an Israeli “trap”, they were convinced that the paper had Israel’s fingerprints all over it. That wasn’t true. The one change we’d insisted on was because it misre...

…Sadat a few weeks earlier. But that had come to nothing. In no small part due to the success of the raid on Rue Verdun, Israel’s generals believed the balance of strength and security was on our side and that, at least for a while, Israel could breathe a bit more easily. But we...

…oud Ahmadinejad, 42% of ministry employees have only high school degrees. “The regime is a bigger threat to itself than Israel,” he Says. Karl Vick has been TIME's Jerusalem bureau chief since 2010, covering Israel,the Palestine territories and nearby sovereignties. He worked 16...

…and its greatest failure? SE: The fact that, two decades after Oslo, we are still a nation under occupation shows that Israeli governments did derail it. The interim accords were not supposed to last for 20 years but only five. After that, we were going to enjoy freedom and sove...

… purposes of the meeting, so that at least there could be meaningful discussion of the border, including the provisions Israel wanted in order to retain the major settlement blocks. President Clinton agreed that made sense. He said that without talking about the substance of such...

…of genocide against Jewish babies, women and men. The Islamic world has been in conflict with Elie Wiesel's people over Israel, and many innocent Jews have been murdered by Islamic co-religionists of Muslims who have been terrorized in Sarajevo. Yet, Wiesel makes no distinctions...

…. Many months into our planning, we conducted a series of run-throughs in which we simulated attaching the intercept to Israel’s telephone network in the south, not far from the camp where I’d done my fironut. Though it all seemed to go as planned, the next morning in rained heav...

…usion of Peace with Syria Elliott Abrams Article 2. | The Daily Star A democratic Arab world would welcome peace with Israel Hamid Alkifaey AricleS-’ The Daily Beast The Awkward Exit of Mideast Envoy George Mitchell Daniel Stone Article 4. | The Washington Post Amid the Ar...

…’. This is a redundant and even harmful law. In general, and particularly at this point. To our friends it signals that Israel is losing its self- confidence regarding the obvious — namely,its unique identity as the Jewish-democratic state as reflected by the "Declaration of Inde...