Results for “Knesset”

…ously pre-arranged seizure of Sinai, Gaza and the canal. It took a while for the message to sink in. In a speech to the Knesset after the conquest was complete, Ben-Gurion declared the post- 1948 armistice null and void, and said Israel would never again allow “foreign forces” to...

… 410 Gaza War II: Cease-Fire Agreement (21 November 2012) 416 Part II. Peace Proposals and Ideas Prime Minister Begin’s Knesset Speech on Home Rule (28 December 1977) 419 Fahd Plan (7 August 1981) 422 Reagan Plan (1 September 1982) 423 Fez Peace Initiative (9 September 1982) 429...

…o 4, but with five abstentions. That meant less than half of his ministers had voted for it. The easy part for him was Knesset ratification, since I had committed Labor to supporting Bibi on any move towards continuing the peace process. The day after the Knesset’s vote, Bibi wo...

…r Haifa, busloads of protestors from right-wing religious schools shouted abuse at Rabin when he rose to speak. As the Knesset vote on Oslo II approached, the hatred reached new levels. The day before, thousands of protesters packed into Jerusalem’s Zion Square. Some shouted “De...

…ada.” By the second part of November, there were five separate motions of no- confidence working their way through the Knesset. I could have quashed them all at a single stroke, since Arik, both publicly and privately, was conveying to me his continuing interest in joining a uni...

…r Haifa, busloads of protestors from right-wing religious schools shouted abuse at Rabin when he rose to speak. As the Knesset vote on Oslo II approached, the hatred reached new levels. The day before, thousands of protesters packed into Jerusalem’s Zion Square. Some shouted “De...

…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 made him Interior Minister, Natan Sharansky let it be known he was going to vote against us. He did...

…a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, about the alternative on the Palestinian side if those who wanted a negotiated peace had nothing but stalemate to show for...

…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 made him Interior Minister, Natan Sharansky let it be known he was going to vote against us. He did...

…a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, about the alternative on the Palestinian side if those who wanted a negotiated peace had nothing but stalemate to show for...

… took to the streets… demanding a more equal allocation of the burden. • Just last month, 53 new, fresh members of the Knesset were sworn in, about half the serving members of Knesset … (Present company included!)… were out. • That is what I call democracy in action. • A demo...

was “Get Gaza out of Tel Aviv!” Labor ended up gaining five Knesset

barely. Arik needed a majority of the Knesset’s 120 seats to bring

the peace activist Uri Avneri and Knesset member

…e agreement that will end the conflict, and the blood, between us and our neighbors.” I made the same points before the Knesset. I did, of course, want parliamentary support. But I was acting on a mandate from the people of Israel. It was they, in a referendum, who would ultimate...