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…fter the assassination of my longtime comrade and friend Yitzhak Rabin, when I had become Foreign Minister under Shimon Peres. But in the intervening years, Arafat was rarely off of my radar. By the early 1970s, he and his fighters had been expelled by King Hussein’s army from Jo...

… scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. Article 3. The Daily Beast The Mixed Legacy Of Shimon Peres HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029704 Daniel Gavron Feb 4, 2013 -- Now that he has finished his consultations with the country's political parties and charged Benjamin N...

…al negotiations in May that year. 20 August 1993 Secret signing of the Oslo Accords in Oslo by Israeli Foreign Minister Peres, Palestinian Chief Negotiator Qorei and Norwegian Foreign Minister Holst. 9 September 1993 Israel and the PLO exchange letters of recognition. 13 Septembe...

… Labor’s TV campaign messages. I knew what I wanted to say. I’d talked it over with the small group of campaign experts Peres had asked me to assemble alongside Ramon’s main team. Rather than ignore Bibi, I was going to use my position as his former commander in Sayeret Matkal, s...

…from, the fact that it was neither polemic nor overtly hostile towards Israel. When I returned to Israel, I found that Peres, too, wanted to restart the negotiating process with the Syrians. The effort took on fresh momentum after a meeting at Peres’s home in Jerusalem in early...

…wish colonization in Samaria, the northern part of the West Bank. The previous year, as a young reporter, I interviewed Peres, after he and his political ally Moshe Dayan had refused “on principle” to join the government of Golda Merr. “If a single child can learn that politics i...

…ally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even have a role. A few days later, Peres and I met again. In Israeli elections, the campaign manager is called head of hasbarah — media and public-information planning. He told me he still didn’t...

…our minds right now as Netanyahu struggles to put together a government, let us consider the other negative part of the Peres legacy: his stint as Defense Minister under Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin from 1974 to 1977. Today Peres is widely respected as the architect of the Oslo A...

…ally secure the endorsement of the Israeli people. It seemed, for a while, I might even have a role. A few days later, Peres and I met again. In Israeli elections, the campaign manager is called head of hasbarah — media and public-information planning. He told me he still didn’t...

…e, and possibly mine, in leading our opposition to Bibi and bringing a Labor government back to power. The question of Peres’s leadership was unavoidable. Labor’s constitution mandated a vote for party chairman within 14 months of an election defeat. But the widespread assumptio...

…n debate. In the meantime, though Bibi might be many things, he wasn’t stupid. He was already telling voters that while Peres was making deals with Arafat, ordinary Israelis were being left to wonder where the next terrorist would strike. He would surely ramp up the accusations t...

…at question Margalit asked him, he almost invariably answered with the driving message of his campaign: that because of Peres, Israeli citizens were living in fear, wondering where the next suicide bomber would strike or the next Katyusha would land. And unavoidably, there was an...

…ded: “It seems a bit too good to be true.” It was. The next morning, I joined other ministers and party officials with Peres in his office. It was as if our conversation a few hours before had never happened. Shimon set out his strategy for Labor going forward. And the first thi...

…y's political parties and charged Benjamin Netanyahu with forming a new coalition, Israel’s respected President, Shimon Peres, is once again very much in the news. In his speech inviting Netanyahu to form the next government, the President spoke forcefully about peace and even se...

…ting a final peace with the Palestinians unless we could stop at least most of the terror attacks before they happened. Peres, too, had been worried about “undermining coexistence.” But now, he and the rest of the cabinet were so shaken by the carnage Hamas had left that they app...