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…with my raising it with the cabinet. I spoke near the end of the four-hour cabinet meeting to ratify the Gaza- Jericho plan. The ministers seemed attentive as I ran through the security concerns I’d raised with Rabin, even nodding when I compared the agreement’s security provisi...

…I still wasn’t convinced, but as we manipulated it back and forth, it got louder. Still, my instinct was to abort. We’d placed the explosives on the electricity tower and the pipeline. That would at least divert attention from our real mission, which meant we could return in a fe...

CNN’S AMANPOUR -— May 29, 2013 President Xi Jinping to meet President Barack Obama Interview with Dr. Robert Lawrence Kuhn, long-time adviser to China’s leaders. http://edition.cnn.com/video/#/video/world/2013/05/29/exp-race-china-us-amanpour.cnn CHRISTIANE AMANPOUR, CNN HOST:...

…ly, the Fatah leader from Karameh was not just older. He had a frailty about him. His skin seemed almost translucent in places. His hands shook slightly, with the early signs of Parkinson’s. He spoke softly. But despite this ostensibly vulnerable exterior, I could see how dauntin...

…uemmler<https://www.lw.com/people/kathrynruemmler> charging thousands of dollars an hour. She did look somewhat out of place among the lawyers there to defend anarchists and other alleged troublemakers who are charged with rioting, burning a limo and smashing up stores on the st...

Korea’s nuclear program and missile launches go unchecked. There is rising risk of military incidents—or accidents—in the South China Sea and across the Taiwan Strait. China is the most likely source of global economic shocks over the next two to three years. The country’s lead...

Under army regulations, training recruits got a five-day leave every few months during fironut. My first one came a bit later than usual, due to Rotem. But in April 1960, shortly before the Passover holiday, I headed back to Mishmar Hasharon. Despite my minor triumph of desert na...

…the Belgian Foreign Minister Didier Reynders, European Commission officials and Members of the European Parliament to explain the situation in Yemen and seek support for the Yemeni government's peace efforts. He said the Yemeni government seeks peace based on the three references...

…sh Intelligence Services Act of 1994 allowed © officers of the GCHQ to commit illegal acts outside Britain, includ- ing planting devices to intercept data from computer servers, cell phones, and other electronic targets. And, as Snowden’s release of documents revealed in 2013 and...

…e http ://www.sec.gov/ divisions/enforce/ enforcementmanual.pdf. 3 See USAMS§ 9-28.300.A; see also USAM § 9-28.700.B (explaining benefits of cooperation for both government and corporation). 24 See USAM § 9-28.900 (discussing restitution and remediation). The commentary further...

… Partly, amazement that through sheer determination and political maneuvering, Arik seemed to have pulled off his grand plan — or at least the Lebanon part of it. Yes, we’d ended up fighting a kind of half-war against the Syrians which, though we’d won it, still left 30,000 of As...

2] Article 7. Hurriyet Why Golda Meir was right Burak Bekdil August 23, 2011 -- It has been more than two and a half years since Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan told to Israeli President Shimon Peres’s face, “You (Jews) know well how to kill.” Prime Minister Erdogan has...

The Saudis are reliable defenders of the West’s diverse interests in the region, and have been America’s principal ally in the Middle East for more than seventy years. The confused notion that Saudi Arabia is synonymous with radical Islam is falsely based on the Western notion th...

…lict with the Syrians. All of this, under a tight seal of secrecy. Finally, in early September 2007, everything was in place. Olmert briefed the cabinet, and secured the ministers’ approval to destroy the reactor, with the understanding that the precise timing of the operation w...

…olleague gave rise to a point I will not soon forget. "Fred, there's no time for policy deliberations about Syria or anyplace else. We live in the era of Blackberry diplomacy. We react and we improvise as best we can." Anyone under the age of thirty reading the above would probab...