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…s, he kept assuring them that he had checked with my commanders and that I was alive and well. Nava had been relying on American news reports and the relayed assurances from my parents, which she was seasoned enough as an army wife to treat with skepticism. I missed her badly, a...

…at shortage." The first one, an Ethiopian replies, "There's a word I don't understand, what ‘meat?’ is?" The second, an American, also says there's a word he doesn’t understand: "What's "shortage?" The third, from China, also doesn't understand something: "What's opinion?" Finall...

most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and especially Russia to help isolate Iran and North Korea. She and the president have convinced the Russians that proffering military hardware to Iran isn’t in their national-sec...

…rous. And if some find rational discussion offensive — as, for example, mainstream academics find dismantling myths of “American exceptionalism” or “Israeli self-defense” or Obama’s mass murder campaign, etc., offensive — so be it. But | don’t see why that should extend to ridic...

which for some time now has enjoyed Saudi moderation on the Palestinian question. That seems about to change — not the least because the Arab street that Turki expressly mentioned is demanding it and the Saudis will

…romisingly support Israel's right to preserve and develop its indigenous military capacities. 4. Israel will accept an American invitation to attend a peace conference that will be convened in the U.S. no later than mid-2013. This gathering will address the Israeli-Palestinian c...

…s, he kept assuring them that he had checked with my commanders and that I was alive and well. Nava had been relying on American news reports and the relayed assurances from my parents, which she was seasoned enough as an army wife to treat with skepticism. I missed her badly, a...

/ BARAK / 97 summit, we responded. The only, brief, lull came when Arafat feared the Americans would cancel his scheduled visit to Washington to see Clinton on November 9. I was due to follow him three days later. I met Clinton and Dennis Ross over dinner in a little kitchen ar...

/ BARAK / 85 Once it was clear to the Americans there would be no talks until the President returned, however, Madeline began urging me to go see Arafat personally. The two members of our team who were the least pessimistic about Camp David’s outcome, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yossi Gi...

…ng money for organised crime. As soon as the balloon went up and he was arrested, he was warned by friends with Italian-American origins that his life, and the lives of his family, would be at risk were he not to "take the rap". OETaking the rap': hedge fund fraud Bernie Madoff U...

…cond-hand, through intercepts of Arab leaders’ communications with one another. But the picture which emerged was of an American president deftly able to stake out common ground, and common interests, with each of the Americans’ growing number of anti-Saddam allies. When we ente...

…stinians don’t consider a two-state solution very realistic either. After a while, it hit me: This is what Israelis and American Jews have been demanding all along. Didn’t we always say, during the bloody Arafat years, that when the Palestinians produced Gandhis everything would...

…nnot be said. After “L’ Affaire Judt” we have “L’ Affaire Kushner,” but with different outcomes that suggest a shifting American Jewish discourse. The late Tony Judt, author of the brilliant study of late 20th-century Europe called “Postwar,” saw his New York persona changed wit...

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