Results for “Government of Israel”

…nd military readiness, or out of the blue, after one party thinks that the dangers of war have subsided? Would the U.S. government assemble a broad “coalition of the willing’, just a few close allies-in-arms at the ready, or go it alone, even actively dissuading Israel from joini...

…en they first meet is a daunting one. For the Israelis, if the fact became known that they were talking to the PLO, the government would most likely fall. For the Palestinians, it would mean an assassin’s bullet. At the heart of this danse macabre stands Red-Larsen, whom I met o...

…rnational community, especially the Americans, appreciated our efforts to help the Palestinians, Bibi and others in the government could, and did, claim credit. When there were complaints from the right, Bibi could and did say: “It wasn’t me. It was Barak.” My part in our relati...

…Tzipi and Bibi.” Kadima got 28 Knesset seats, to 27 for Bibi and the Likud, which gave her the first crack at forming a government. There’s no way of disguising the fact that Labor’s result in my first election back in charge was a disappointment. We went down six seats, to 13. T...

…the two major parties. And win, he did. I became increasingly convinced in the weeks that followed that Begin’s second government, with Arik now moved to defense minister, would further put the brakes on any follow-up negotiations for a deal with the Palestinians. I did not yet...

…rnational community, especially the Americans, appreciated our efforts to help the Palestinians, Bibi and others in the government could, and did, claim credit. When there were complaints from the right, Bibi could and did say: “It wasn’t me. It was Barak.” My part in our relati...

…ing a number of infrastructure installations, deeper inside Lebanon. It was part of a plan for a full-scale war, if the government decided that was necessary. As the early public statements by Olmert and other ministers made clear, they did not intend to start a war, at least at...

…would also risk forfeiting the American support we’d secured by our efforts to reach a peace deal, an asset all Israeli governments would benefit from in other circumstances and contexts in the future. Fortunately, I had an alternative to a coalition with the Likud. Alarmed at t...

…ys later, Raful chaired a wide-ranging discussion on Lebanon. Near the end of the session, I asked him directly whether government ministers were aware that our war plan “will inevitably lead to a clash with the Syrians”. Raful hesitated for a second, but then answered briskly: “...

…ed neither British nor American law. He told a BBC interviewer in regard to that file:’ What's scariest is not what the government is doing that's unlawful, but what they're doing that is completely lawful.” So his criteria for taking such HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_020363

…iolence presented a security challenge of a different order: to the ability of the Israeli police, and by extension the government, to ensure basic law and order inside our borders. The worst of the clashes lasted barely a week. But they left thirteen Arab Israeli protestors dead...

…s 50,000) who have distorted Islam. I call this the “Peaceful Muslim Disclaimer” as virtually everyone in the press and government has been bullied into making some statement of the kind to silence those who will pressure them that they are “Islamophobic” and Islam is being attac...

…in to think that maybe Donald Trump really could build a wall along our southern border for a lot less than our current government estimates. >> 'The Art of the Deal' is filled with stories like this — stories of common sense stories of calculated risk taking, and stories of inno...

…t’s clearance for actual implementation to begin. But it didn’t. With hard-line ministers threatening to bring down the government if it did, Bibi again stalled. That was the turning point. I’d made it clear our parliamentary support would remain for as long as Bibi moved ahead w...

…ent) don’t believe that al Qaeda was responsible for the Twin Tower attacks, instead affixing blame to Israel, the U.S. government or an unknown entity. This kind of dangerous misinformation carries into even the most recent current events. In the same survey, 62 percent either d...