OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi The Crooked Course: Step by Step on the Path to Peace INTRODUCTION As Immanuel Kant observed, “out of the crooked timber of humanity no straight thing was ever made.” And the Middle East peace process is no exception. It runs a crook...
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every opportunity The optimist — sees the opportunity in every difficultly. ¢ We have opportunities before us within all of the difficulties. The most important of all, a rare one, the kind that comes once in a generation — is the opportunity to establish a regional agreement....
/ BARAK / 40 talks. I did realize that, “null and void” or not, our proposals or suggestions would not simply disappear from memory. But I felt the point of principle was essential if Israel was going to be able to consider the kind of far-reaching concessions which final peace...
capability. Period." to "Iran will not have military nuclear capability on our watch " e This is of course a completely different thing. And this perception only reinforces Iran's obduracy and the delaying tactics that they've adopted. ¢ Israel has a supreme interest in "keepin...
…ship. In fact, three days into the summit, the mood among the Palestinians seemed increasingly aggrieved. Not just the Americans, but some members of my own team, were urging me to show more “personal warmth” towards Arafat. I did always exchange greetings and pleasantries with...
…entually translate into negotiating progress. “I hope so,” I said. It wasn’t until day-four that real talks began. The Americans arranged for negotiating teams from both sides on borders, the refugee issue, and Jerusalem to meet with President Clinton. The Palestinians participa...
/ BARAK / 78 and refining our position on Jerusalem. I think Clinton expected a formal offer from us. Since I’d been guided by his request for a list of questions for Arafat, however, that is what we came to him with. As we’d discussed, I wanted finally to elicit some sign of wh...
themselves. Every year, new threats arise. And the old ones: Hezbollah, Iran, terrorism —are all "alive and kicking" and growing even stronger. But there is good news too. Israel is the strongest country in the region, from Tripoli in Libya to Tehran. It's the strongest militari...
asked what he knew about the car outside. “Nothing,” he said. “It’s not mine.” They took it away. As insistently as I, and others in Sayeret Matkal, had wanted to play our part on the battlefields of the Six-Day War — in the Sinai, on the Golan, in the bitter battle to capture J...
a sort of "autonomy" for the Palestinians — is an illusion at best, and the first step of an upcoming blame game at worst. It will be brutally rejected by our closest friends — not to mention by each of the potential partners for the regional agreement — and by all of them togeth...
The key to the Inner Jihad is to learn to transfer responsibility for our Islamic Enemy’s hate and resultant actions back to it and take responsibility back for our own situation. We must learn all we can about the enemy. We must unwind our inappropriate projections and introject...
/ BARAK / 42 negotiations. The first stirrings of discontent had begun even before I went to see Clinton. On the basis of my commitment merely to try for peace, Arik Sharon had presented a no-confidence motion in the Knesset. It was never going to pass. But only days after I’d m...
to adapt on the ground. And obviously pleased that we’d found a way to make the operation work. The Sinai mission marked a transition not just for me, but for others in Sayeret Matkal as well. Avraham Aranan finally left the unit he’d imagined, created and built. He became the h...
again. The more I talked, however, the more I sensed that the details weren’t what General Tzur really wanted to know. I think what he actually wanted to gauge was whether / felt confident. He wanted to reassure himself he wasn’t taking any more than the obvious risks in sending...
/ BARAK / 37 was coping in his trademark military uniform. Still, the mood music going into the meeting was encouraging. After the election, Arafat had tried to use his ties with the ayatollahs in Iran to get them to release 13 members of the tiny Jewish community in Shiraz who...