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end of the day, dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured. Five Palestinians
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011851.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Araf...

to get air support, but the commander of our artillery force called in all available
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028049.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…“You were right,” I told Uri and Yossi. They had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the Airya, predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028049

My new posting came not just as momentum was building toward an
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011663.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…ared, left the door ajar for something more than autonomy. Shutting that door, I would soon discover, was a big part of Arik’s ornate reasoning for invading Lebanon. Beyond the fact that my new job was a promotion, I had a personal reason for welcoming the move back to Tel Aviv....

to get air support, but the commander of our artillery force called in all available
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011672.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…“You were right,” I told Uri and Yossi. They had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the Airya, predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011672

end of the day, dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured. Five Palestinians
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028228.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…convinced that a road accident in Gaza had been something more sinister. There had been no serious unrest on the day of Arik’s visit. We would later learn this was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Araf...

The SinoVision/Qiaobao story is illustrative of Beijing’s push to dominate Chinese
document IMAGES-006-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020544.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…per, Qiaobao, is divided into two divisions: the Western US Qiaobao (RHE id) and the Eastern United States. Qiaobao (2H Arik). The president of the Western division is also the chairman of the board of directors of Rhythm Media Group, a corporation that consists of Qigobao and a...

wasn’t enough, David Levy, my Foreign Minister, told me he would not be joining
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011818.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…thing we might agree. When the Knesset votes were counted, thanks to the fact two dozen MKs abstained, both sides lost. Arik fell seven votes short of a majority. So the government survived. But those opposed to the summit got more votes than we did: 54 to 52. There were several...

wasn’t enough, David Levy, my Foreign Minister, told me he would not be joining
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028195.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…thing we might agree. When the Knesset votes were counted, thanks to the fact two dozen MKs abstained, both sides lost. Arik fell seven votes short of a majority. So the government survived. But those opposed to the summit got more votes than we did: 54 to 52. There were several...

The two other Israeli invasion forces had crossed the border parallel to us
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011669.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… They waded into a Syrian ambush, and for hours found themselves in a fierce battle with Syrian units. I don’t believe Arik specifically planned to confront the Syrians in Jezzin and Ayn Zhalta. But he could not have doubted that, grven the enormous scale and range of our invasi...

receiving money from Talansky. But he insisted it was all a part of election
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011876.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e Prime Minister for another three months. We’d long been discussing the increasingly worrying situation in Gaza. After Arik pulled out, an election had placed Hamas in power, after which the Islamists embarked on a violent purge of Fatah loyalists. Arms smuggling through tunnels...

The two other Israeli invasion forces had crossed the border parallel to us
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028046.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

… They waded into a Syrian ambush, and for hours found themselves in a fierce battle with Syrian units. I don’t believe Arik specifically planned to confront the Syrians in Jezzin and Ayn Zhalta. But he could not have doubted that, grven the enormous scale and range of our invasi...

One night’s massacre would have been enough to produce the outcry that
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011678.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…d troubled not just by our failure to stop the killings once we knew what was going on, but by the response from Begin, Arik and some other ministers to the massacre. Determined to shift the blame and responsibility elsewhere, they kept driving home the point that it was Phalangi...

I did regret being unable to rely on the support of two key constituencies that
document IMAGES-001-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011861.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…y voted against me. Nor did the Israeli Arabs. Yet in very large numbers, they simply didn’t vote. In percentage terms, Arik’s victory was even more decisive than mine over Bibi. He got more than 62 percent of the vote. I received barely 37 percent. 390 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011861

receiving money from Talansky. But he insisted it was all a part of election
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028253.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…e Prime Minister for another three months. We’d long been discussing the increasingly worrying situation in Gaza. After Arik pulled out, an election had placed Hamas in power, after which the Islamists embarked on a violent purge of Fatah loyalists. Arms smuggling through tunnels...

emergency cabinet meeting the next day. His adviser on terrorism, Gideon
document IMAGES-009-HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028045.txt House Oversight Committee — Epstein Estate Records (Nov 2025)

…o Gideon, Begin wasn’t interested in the distinction. Even less so were the two leading military figures in attendance: Arik and Raful. They said all Palestinian terror was the responsibility of Arafat, and that now was the time to hit back hard. The cabinet was informed that our...