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…med and financed by the Iranians and by Syria as well. They were mounting increasingly effective operations against the Israeli troops we’d left in the security zone. Even closer to home, Palestinian attacks on both troops and civilians, though on nowhere near the scale of the fi...

…Gulf correspondent. His new book on Dubai, City of Gold: Dubai and the Dream of Capitalism, is available. As Americans, Israelis and Palestinians continue their endless peace-jockeying, a more hopeful solution has emerged. It is a fresh Arab initiative that depends neither on Ame...

would be a “Palestinian state” in Jordan, which would free Israel to retain open- ended, unchallenged, control of the West Bank. Even the Labor party, fifteen years into Israel’s occupation of the West Bank, was still speaking about a “Jordanian option” for an eventual political...

Article 2. NYT Parties See Obama’s Israel Policy as Wedge for 2012 Jackie Calmes and Helene Cooper May 25, 2011 — Few issues in American politics are as bipartisan as support for Israel. Yet the question of whether President Obama is supportive enough is behind some of the mo...

/ BARAK / 112 then in response to Hamas rocket fire into Israel. The moral: Arik was wrong to withdraw. But the Islamists’ ascendancy was happening anyway. After all, it was Hamas attacks that provided the spearhead of the intifada of terror launched in the wake of Camp David. A...

…ues and mutual interests. Given this commonality of interests and beliefs, it should not be surprising that support for Israel is one of the most pronounced and consistent foreign policy values of the American people. Today’s interdependent global economy requires that trade pol...

…o avoid any serious engagement. In contrast to past presidents, Obama had placed almost all of the onus for progress on Israel. But the end result also suited Bibi. Though I never entirely gave up hope of persuading him it was in Israel’s interest to seek a resolution of our conf...

…o avoid any serious engagement. In contrast to past presidents, Obama had placed almost all of the onus for progress on Israel. But the end result also suited Bibi. Though I never entirely gave up hope of persuading him it was in Israel’s interest to seek a resolution of our conf...

…ion, leads to paralysis. Of course, there are risks in any action, or any policy initiative. But in the situation where Israel finds itself, the biggest risk of all is being unable or unwilling to take risks, as 1f we somehow on the brink of destruction.” I was especially upset...

… his wartime coalition and defeating Saddam. After a formal opening session in Madrid, the “bilateral tracks” — between Israel and negotiators from Syria, Lebanon, Jordan and the Palestinians — had quickly stalemated and stalled. Yitzhak came to office saying he was not interest...

…I’d told Leah by phone from New York after hearing Yitzhak was dead: his murder would leave a huge hole — in me, in all Israelis. He was an extraordinary mix of qualities: a brave officer, first in the pre-state Palmach and then the new Israeli army; a chief of staff and defense...

…17 Trump Development Services Member Corp. New York, NY Corporation President/Director 09/28/09 1119/2017 265 mp Drinks Israel Holdings LLC. New York, NY LLC Member/President 05/25/11 10/26/2015 | Drinks Israel Holdings Member Corp New York, NY President/Director/Chairman 05/25/1...

…nts were signed and “armistice line” borders drawn with the Arab states. By the measure that mattered most — survival — Israel had won and the Arab attackers had lost. Jordan did end up in control of the West Bank, as well as the eastern half of a divided city of Jerusalem, inclu...

…ians in Southeast Asia, the global community chose instead to use its limited time and resources to try to delegitimize Israel. Just a few months after the Cambodian atrocities began, the General Assembly adopted the most infamous resolution in its history, resolution 3379, decla...

…rcise: barely two weeks before the 2012 US election. Politically, he argued, Obama would then feel compelled to support Israel’s action, or at the very least to refrain from criticizing it. In other words, we would be setting a political trap for the President of the United State...