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…thing about the quest for peace in the Middle East has been simple or easily attained. Merely bringing Palestinians and Israelis together was a feat that took decades to achieve. Despite all the efforts exerted by not only the principal parties, but also local actors, regional n...

…nowingly transferred large sums of money to the families of Hamas terrorists who had executed murderous attacks against Israelis.” (Ashton Compl. § 287; Burnett Compl. J 379; Federal Compl. § 439; see also Burnett Compl. J 380 (citing letter written on behalf of Yasser Arafat and...

…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...

…investigation into the July 2012 bombing of a bus filled with Israeli tourists in the city of Burgas, which killed five Israelis and the vehicle's Bulgarian driver. Two of the individuals who carried out the terrorist attack, he said, "belonged to the military formation of Hezbol...

…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...

…st difficult issue: Jerusalem. Across party boundaries, even across divisions between religious and secular, nearly all Israelis viewed the city as not just our capital, but the centrepiece of the state. It had been divided after 1948. The Old City, and the site of the ancient Je...

…erve generals also issued a public message of support. Perhaps most encouragingly, a newspaper poll found a majority of Israelis — 55 percent to 45 — believed I was right to go to Camp David and that I had a mandate to make concessions in return for peace. David Levy came over t...

…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...

…d been given would have been a bonus. In fact, we had half that as a full team, since our Mossad drivers, European-born Israelis, had to make their way through Paris to Beirut as tourists, rent the cars and scout out our route from the seashore to Rue Verdun. There were four oth...

… President of the United States, to shape the final terms of peace. I knew I carried the conflicting hopes and fears of Israelis with me. And the odds really were 50-50. Either we’d come home with an agreement, to be placed before the country in a referendum. Or we would know th...

…st meeting I’ve ever had with Arafat,” he said. Clinton said he had told the Palestinian leader that only one side, the Israelis, had so far been negotiating in good faith. If Arafat was not prepared to make a genuine effort to reach an agreement, then there was no choice but for...

…tkal. Though the fighting had been brief, people did die. Thousands of Egyptians, Syrians and Jordanians. And about 650 Israelis. Some of were not just people we knew. They included close friends. Nechemia Cohen, the officer I’d joined in our failed attempt to defuse the booby-tr...

…ted at a new enemy: a fledgling army of Palestinian fedayeen, called Fatah. It was led by a man that I, like almost all Israelis, had never heard of at the time: Yasir Arafat. Born in Egypt, as a 19-year-old he had fought against the establishment of Israel in the 1948 war. Altho...

…hrough, but then they did. And I didn't want my grandchildren to go through it, and they are. How does any of this get Israelis and Palestinians closer to an agreement or get Palestinians closer to statehood? At least I won't be looking in the mirror and telling myself that I'm...

/ BARAK / 36 compromises that we might have to contemplate during peace negotiations were still anathema to many other Israelis. Syria was always my first negotiating priority, as it had been for Rabin and, for a brief period, Bibi as well. This was not just because the shape o...