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…le. Arafat responded with words both of us had heard before: effusive toward Clinton, rhapsodic about his “old partner” Rabin and fulsome in his ostensible commitment to keep trying for peace. But it was just words. We knew he was not willing even to talk about the kind of compro...

… experienced, but did not bear responsibility for the errors of the war. For Prime Minister, the choice fell on Yitzhak Rabin. He had strong military credentials, of course. But he had left the army and entered politics, and had been out of Israel for several years as Israel’s am...

… met Clinton for the first time in Washington, after two days of talks with President Bush at his summer home in Maine. Rabin was naturally more comfortable dealing with Republicans. Almost all his experience in public life — as a military officer, ambassador to Washington, Defen...

… me into government in the first place was often criticized for the same things. By character, instinct and experience, Rabin, too, remained less a politician than a military man. Yet towards the end of his second period as Prime Minister, he did get better at delegating to peopl...

…n “executions” on Thursday. Today. The deadline had now been pushed back, but only until Sunday morning —and only after Rabin felt he had no option but to drop our public refusal to consider negotiating with them. When Dan called our first operational briefing for Thursday night...

… establishment that had dominated all aspects of Israeli politics, society and culture from the start: Palmachniks like Rabin and Dado; political players like Golda and Shimon Peres; Haganah veterans like Dayan and Bar-Lev; and, of course, the kibbutznik pioneers. Almost all were...

…. I'd been re-assigned to accompany a Mossad team to Kenya. Our first task would be to get the answers to the questions Rabin had asked us. Then, we would be in charge of arranging for the Kenyans to allow us to refuel the C-130s on the way out, and to set up a medical facility f...

…s well as the burial place of Hebrew patriarchs and matriarchs. Peace Now activists had planned a counter- protest, but Rabin denied them permission. Still, anti-settlement members of the Knesset and other Israeli peace activists did get clearance to march from Jerusalem to Hebro...

…e his inner statesman — in which case the world’s irritation and futile Palestinian unilateralism will harden. Yitzhak Rabin did not stand on the White House lawn with Yasser Arafat for a photo-op. The Israeli warrior understood the necessity of a two-state peace. To get there a...

…he United States and Israel. It is “the path that most of Israel’s recent prime ministers have attempted to blaze, from Rabin to Barak to Olmert.” Republicans, however, are confident that their emphasis on unconditional support for Israel holds appeal both for many Jews and for...

…he doctors had been there about 20 minutes, I again retreated to the area where I could get a mobile signal, and phoned Rabin to tell him what had happened. We agreed I should come back to brief him in detail. It was now about 50 minutes since the missiles had hit. The wounded we...

…enachem Begin had it,as several years after the bitter 73’ war he was able to make a daring peace with Egypt. Als Izhak Rabin,who now 20yrs ago, signed the Peace treaty with Jordan though in amidst a wave of terror. He faced huge internal rejection but it began the first baby ste...

… me into government in the first place was often criticized for the same things. By character, instinct and experience, Rabin, too, remained less a politician than a military man. Yet towards the end of his second period as Prime Minister, he did get better at delegating to peopl...

…ose power.” He was right. Only twice in the four decades that followed would a Labor leader defeat Begin’s Likud party: Rabin’s election victory in 1992, and mine over Bibi Netanyahu in 1999. During the first two years of Begin’s rule, however, I was 7,000 miles away. Ten days b...

… I’d got home from the interview, the phone rang. It was someone who, of course, already knew it was the truth: Yitzhak Rabin. “Ehud,” he said, “you did well. Let’s move forward.” 271 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028119