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…ve a very serious conversation with Bibi. (does Obama have the credibility reserve to have that conversation). Jane H: Israelis misplayed this. They encouraged us not to play in Syria. They failed to anticipate Arab Spring and its consequences. Iran needs to be our focus. US nar...

…the choice between concessions, even painful ones, and a genuine peace deal with Syria or the Palestinians, by far most Israelis would choose peace. I relied on a strong, close team around me, people I knew well and who shared my determination to stay focused on the central goal...

…e Syrian people are not going to give up Syria." HOUSE OVERSIGHT 031573 "So basically, the Iranians are acting like the Israelis — they want peace, and they want to keep the land." Other analysts, while conceding any progress would be slow, had somewhat more positive forecasts on...

…be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Israelis were being left to wonder where the next terrorist would strike. He would surely ramp up the accusations that Peres was “weak on security,” especially...

…rowing kids in Gaza and the West Bank. Support for the government of Israel dropped dramatically in Europe and at home. Israelis began to feel that they were losing the moral high ground. Israeli leaders saw that using traditional military means to combat the Intifada came at a h...

…tion of 1967 and 1973.” We had been soldiers during the Six-Day War. In the years immediately after it, like almost all Israelis, we had allowed ourselves to believe that our victory had been so comprehensive, and so quick, that any threat from the defeated Arab states was gone f...

…o give it a try. I told Yossi Ginossar, the former Shin Bet officer who was closest to the Palestinian leader among the Israelis, to set up an informal meeting. I added, to Yossi’s obvious satisfaction and surprise, that I'd be willing to have the meeting in Arafat’s cabin if tha...

…el and the Palestinians. For the first time, the Palestinians had a prime minister who was respected and admired by the Israelis, because he did not come from the same terrorist background as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Unlike his ideological comrades who insisted on "libera...

…on an even greater power and poignancy after the mass murder of the Jews of Europe during the Holocaust. Even for many Israelis nowadays, the all-consuming collectivism of life on an early kibbutz, and the physical challenges, are hard to imagine. Among the few dozen families in...

…d them to use negotiations as a means to continue rather than stop colonization. FP: What is the most important thing Israelis don't understand about Palestinians? SE: That we are not going anywhere. As simple as that. We are not going to disappear just because their governmen...

…chet up sanctions and drive up oil and gasoline prices, they must be very concerned that without tougher sanctions, the Israelis might act. ** Iran’s Fordow facility is key to understanding the debate about the effectiveness of military action, and why some are nervous that the...

… few stolen evenings or weekends with my family. The timing had nothing to do with the election. Like most other Labor Israelis, and many of Begin’s own supporters, I hadn’t expected the Likud to win. It was because I felt I'd reached a natural punctuation mark in my military ca...

…el and the Palestinians. For the first time, the Palestinians had a prime minister who was respected and admired by the Israelis, because he did not come from the same terrorist background as Yasser Arafat and Mahmoud Abbas. Unlike his ideological - comrades who insisted on “libe...

…rgets of Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad. A Palestinian teenager was abducted and killed in Jerusalem by a group of Israelis. This triggered a series of violent clashes. Israel launches operation ‘Protective Edge’ against Hamas in the Gaza Strip in retaliation to rocket atta...

…d started. And I extended a hand to “secular and religious, the ultra-Orthodox and the residents of the settlements, to Israelis of Middle Eastern origin and Ashkenazi extraction, to immigrants from Eithopia and the former Soviet Union, to the Arabs, the Druze, the Circassians, t...