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…at a price: more than two dozen Israeli soldiers dead. It also had a major political impact. It caused shock among many Israelis, still wrapped in a sense of invincibility from the Six-Day War, as well as a feeling in the Arab world, actively encouraged by Arafat and his comrades...

…nto the living conditions of Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. The relationships with both Palestinians and Israelis that he established during the period of preparing and implementing this project led to a request by the PLO in 1992 that he help establish a secret ch...

…initial effort crashed and burned, leaving the president pretty frustrated and annoyed with both HOUSE OVERSIGHT 028682 Israelis and Palestinians, particularly Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But hey, that was then. A second-term president has committed himself early i...

…e for one another, a e capaci O and the tears shed by both the king and his ie a queen, made a deep impression on the Israelis d th d d d for their humanity and ability to overcome the persua e e wl € past. Here, clearly, were keepers of Rabin's flame of peace, continuing a li...

… shoulders at the opening of the Madrid Peace Conference in October 1991. And over the years, he continued to annoy the Israelis too with his fiery performances on CNN -- though to this day, key Israeli negotiators, such as Isaac Molho, continue to praise his pragmatism at the ba...

…itical left had the will but not the strength, He alone, at the time, had the capacity to persuade the divided and wary Israelis to accept a compromise arrangement with the Palestine Liberation Organization that held great promise for peace but also great risk. But the risk was s...

…, who would have the final word, it was not clear which of his many advisors was key to his plans for getting Arabs and Israelis to make peace. A third misstep by Obama was to define the Israeli–Palestinian conflict in terms of a dispute that could best be resolved by direct neg...

…ian who uncultivated area of the eastern agreed to make peace with Arafat, Mediterranean known as Palestine, a man most Israelis, as one Israeli the long-running conflict between character in the play remarks, saw as the Israelis and the Palestinians is no being akin to “Hitler i...

…ss the effect their dueling speeches have had on the prospects for peace. There is one factual conclusion on which the Israelis and the Palestinians completely agree: following President Obama's recent speech — and repeated explanation of it — on the Israel-Palestine conflict, w...

…Iran grows strong. We have to secure the Jordan Valley. And no Israeli government is going to move tens of thousands of Israelis from their homes quickly.” Those Israelis live in West Bank settlements, the source of much of the disagreement not only with the Palestinians but wit...

Yitzhak’s murder had acted like a kind lightning strike, freezing Israelis in a mix of disgust over what had occurred and awareness of the dangers this brand of hatred and extremism posed. I was concerned the moment would be allowed to pass. My hope was that we could seize the op...

…ined without taking into account the opinions of the ordinary people who live the reality every single day. Millions of Israelis and Palestinians on both sides of the green line have had their voices drowned out by the very politicians, lawmakers, and personalities who purport to...

…inue their policies, they are going to officially adopt the form of an apartheid regime, which I think is not what many Israelis want. FP: What is the most important thing Palestinians have learned about Israelis? SE: That Israelis will not take back the ships that brought them...

…upon in the days immediately after Camp David, but hugely significant. A taboo had been broken. For the first time, all Israelis recognized what their political leaders, both Labor and Likud, had long known: a formal, final peace with the Palestinians, if and when it came, would...

generally civil, and often friendly contacts, Israelis had with Palestinians at the time. The local population had, after all, been under other occupation powers before 1967: Jordan in the West Bank, and Egypt in Gaza. Assuming our administration was less onerous, most Israelis b...