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Now that we were in a fight —the single fiercest battle in Israel’s advance across the Sinai — Lieutenant-Colonel Eitan reacted swiftly. Standing tall amid the shellfire and the flames, he radioed for supporting fire, only to be told that none of our artillery batteries was withi...

But there were times of crisis, and high tension, as well. Only five months after the election, Rabin and I faced one of the most painful periods during my entire time as chief of staff. It began with the gruesome death of five Sayeret Matkal soldiers during a training exercise i...

…cabinet were inclined to see a glass half-empty. They continued to press for Israeli military action. In a rare public statement, I tried to reassure the country we did have a military option, but also to urge restraint. I pointed out that the number of Scuds had begun decreasin...

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I sensed, at the time, at least the start of some connection. I suspected that Arafat viewed me, as he had Rabin before me, as a “fellow fighter”. But if so, I now wondered whether that might have been part of the problem in his ever truly understanding my mission at Camp David....

/ BARAK / 118 deal with a major conflict with the Syrians. All of this, under a tight seal of secrecy. Finally, in early September 2007, everything was in place. Olmert briefed the cabinet, and secured the ministers’ approval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that...

slammed Hagel for his past comments and positions on Iran. In conjunction with Israel-friendly members of Congress, they’ve warned Obama to rein Hagel in so as not to send a dovish signal to Tehran. Robert Satloff, executive direction of the Washington Institute for Near East Pol...

… by truck in Honduras. “She’s looking at the guts of how we work,” says Dr. Raj Shah, who runs USAID. According to old State hands, Hillary represents some of the better qualities of her predecessors. She has Baker’s obsession with preparation, reaches out like Colin Powell (who...

…s not just the constant travel but also the speed and range of the issues she must master. She finds being secretary of state even more taxing than the 2008 campaign, where she could go on autopilot and give the same speech six times in a day, and had heard all the questions befo...

…rtisers vanished because of their opposition to the Hungarian government, leaving only one print opposition daily. The State Department and the U.S. Embassy in Budapest have remained almost entirely silent about all of this. The compliant new U.S. approach was initially discusse...

…/11 attacks”; 4. Khalid al-Mihdhar and Nawaf al-Hazmi, two of the alleged 9/11 hijackers, whose presence in the United States was concealed from the FBI by CIA officers for months before 9/11. It might sound from these citations that the 9/11 Commission marked a new stage in th...

…der man, whom the girl later identified as Mr. Epstein, might have had inappropriate sexual contact with her. In sworn statements to the police, the 14-year-old and other teenage girls said a friend had arranged for them to visit Mr. Epstein’s home and give him massages, usually...

…public office. After leaving a career in politics, I devoted much of my time to public lectures that took me into every state in the union and much of Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Latin America. In 1988, I invested most of the earnings from this lecture circuit acquiring th...

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…rity Adminis- tration (SSA) has based federal rights to benefits on whether marital rights exist in the couples current state of residence rather than the state in which they were married. The impact of Windsor on the manner in which federal agencies will treat Social Security be...