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…Only then did the number of casualties begin to fall. I tried to steer clear of public criticism of Arik’s government. One of the lessons I’d learned as Prime Minister was how easy it was to second-guess from the outside. No Prime Minister can act exactly as he might plan or wan...

…ob. Then, suddenly, he shouted: “Reuma!” When his wife appeared, he said: “Tell Barak the missing piece in my life, the one I’ve never stopped regretting.” She smiled, and said: “It’s the fact you did not become ramatkal.” I saw Rabin a couple of days later. Though I’d pretty mu...

… include Labor in his government, with me as his Defense Minister. Even though I’d announced I was stepping aside, he phoned me the morning after the election to make that argument again. He said Israel needed a strong government, especially to confront the escalating violence. H...

… few dozen outside the unit who did know about my role, however, were paratroopers who’d joined us on various missions. One of them now told the El Al people who I was. Not only was I given a seat on the first overnight plane back to Tel Aviv. I found myself helping the airline e...

A nuclear Iran is the most imminent and acute danger to the stability of the entire region. But it is not the only one: Radical Islamist terror is soreading rapidly. And the accumulation of missiles and rockets will necessitate regional missile defense. So what is to be done?...

…much as I was. Our main reserve division had been ordered to take control over the hills south of the Tovlano Triangle. One of its brigades, led by a former Sayeret Matkal soldier named Nachman Rifkind, was sent to take up a position immediately south of the triangle. Soon after...

…rafat ageing, ailing and even less inclined to consider the difficult decisions he had shirked at Camp David, Arik went one, dramatic step further. He raised the idea of unilaterally withdrawing Israeli forces and settlements from Gaza — ensuring a showdown with the rank and file...

… Prime Minister for the first two years, and Shamir the final two. But the stipulation of most relevance to me was that one man would be the Defence Minister throughout the four years: Yitzhak Rabin. My relationship with Rabin went back much further than with Misha. I'd first me...

…Only then did the number of casualties begin to fall. I tried to steer clear of public criticism of Arik’s government. One of the lessons I’d learned as Prime Minister was how easy it was to second-guess from the outside. No Prime Minister can act exactly as he might plan or wan...

…he was getting to the detail of the motorcade attack, I felt a young sayeret officer tap me on the shoulder. Kuti had phoned to say I was to go see him at the kirya. “He said immediately,” the officer added, “and not to discuss it with anyone. Just to tell Dan Shomron that you’ve...

… have a role, formal or informal, in working on behalf of the administration to jump start peace talks. “This was as a one off,” he said. You're reading 2 of 5 free articles. Get UNLIMITED access for only 99¢ per week. Subscribe now 4/7/2017 11:48 AM HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_014867

…political life and for that of the regime put in place in 1970 by his father, the late President Hafez al-Assad. Forty-one years in power The rule of the Assads, father and son, has now lasted 41 years, a score comparable to that of other long-lasting Arab autocrats, each appar...

…mer of an implausible dream. MORE... i. ~Themediaare misleading the public on Syria The coverage of the Syrian war is one of the most shameful episodes in history of the American press. MORE... TheGolden Age of TV isexhausting All this wonderful TV is great, but it’s wearing...

…ed reform and political change. If you wanted to construct a more vulnerable target in a laboratory, you couldn't have done much better. Syria presents a profoundly different situation. U.S. policy has always been driven by the hope that the Assads would change and the fear of w...

…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...