Results for “One Israel”

… assume, we would leave an imprint in other spheres of the new state’s life. I doubt it’s an accident that nearly every one of the boys with whom I grew up in Mishmar Hasharon went on to become an officer during his time in the military. Judging from my own first few weeks in un...

…age we had was that they would have no idea what had happened on Rue Verdun, who we were, or where we were going. No sooner had we joined the Corniche than I saw another police Land Rover about 200 yards ahead of us. This one had a spotlight on the roof, panning both sides of th...

…trajudicial killing, aircraft sabo- tage ... or the provision of material sup- port or resources ... for such an act?— none of the other exceptions should be read to apply in its place.” Defendants includes particular language in one section of a statute but omits it from anothe...

…swering that question at the summit. Camp David was different from Shepherdstown. No reporters would be there. Mobile phones were banned. Each delegation had one landline. We’d also be operating under a time constraint. President Clinton was due to leave for a G8 summit in Japan...

…he currently-calm status quo in the West Bank, but without obviously upgrading their ties to Israel, or throwing their money behind a political establishment that they don't fully trust. "On one end they need to make sure Fatah does not completely collapse or weaken to the point...

…eaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied. “But one of my cabinet ministers thinks that a formula of 70-10-20 would work, meaning 70 percent for the Palestinians, ten percent to allow us to retain and secure...

…nto Arab insecurities, exploited in turn by regional demagogues, that outsiders are at fault for whatever ails them. At one raucous meeting at a university in Casablanca, which we later dubbed “The Pinata Session,” 120 students eager to tee off on an American, any American, swarm...

…in the contest was Knesset member Azmi Beshara, the first Israeli Arab citizen to seek national office. When we chose “One Israel” as the name of our campaign alliance, it was not meant just as a catchy phrase. Though now a half-century old, the country had rarely seemed so dive...

…cause most people, even most who claim adherence to the First Amendment, favor some censorship. Deep down, clearly everyone wants to censor something. I have Jewish friends who support freedom of expression for everyone—except for Nazis who want to march through Jewish neighborho...

…e final decisions at the summit would be mine, he feared it would fail, and didn’t want to share in the consequences. None of this meant I wasn’t going. Even if the no-confidence vote succeeded, the new Israeli electoral system, with its separate vote for Prime Minister, meant I...

…ts swirling around me. Mishmar Hasharon, the hamlet north of Tel Aviv where I spent the first 17 years of my life, was one of the early kibbutzim. These collective farming settlements had their roots in Herzl’s view that an avant-garde of “pioneers” would need to settle a homela...

…sometimes uncomfortably together by central government. But governments have themselves been far from neutral, favoring one community over another in cynical power plays. Many Sunni Muslims in Syria and throughout the region feel that Assad's Syria has unduly favored the Alawites...

…t Hitler was taking an amphetamine drug, Benzedrine, daily and in high doses for the last 20 or more years of his life. One can hear the characteristic, amphetamine-induced, higher pitched, rants in his recorded radio tirades. Compare the pitch and strained voice quality of the s...

…t: it would increase our negotiating leverage with the Palestinians. That would certainly not be lost on Yasir Arafat — one reason that I realized the importance of an early meeting with him, to convey my commitment to keeping the Oslo process alive, and, if possible, achieving a...

…force base, southeast of Tel Aviv, the command post in the Negev was receiving the first intercepts. A few days later, one of the sayeret soldiers gave me a first-hand insight into the mood in the command post in the final stages of the operation. Avsha Horan’s role had been to...