…e decades before the two of us actually met – shortly after 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 fi...
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… on the Path to Peace Maps xiv xvi xvii xviii xxix xlii Part I. Peace Agreements and the Disengagement from Gaza Arafat–Rabin–Holst Exchange of Letters (Israel–PLO Recognition) (9 September 1993) 3 Declaration of Principles on Interim Self-Government Arrangements (13 September 19...
…orked in the fields with Yigal Garber in the 1950s. Shortly after we arrived, a group of protestors started shouting at Rabin. Manyac, they yelled, “maniac”. Boged: traitor. At the second event, near Haifa, busloads of protestors from right-wing religious schools shouted abuse at...
…orked in the fields with Yigal Garber in the 1950s. Shortly after we arrived, a group of protestors started shouting at Rabin. Manyac, they yelled, “maniac”. Boged: traitor. At the second event, near Haifa, busloads of protestors from right-wing religious schools shouted abuse at...
because we were people with whom Rabin felt comfortable — a counterpoint, I suspect, to the old Labor Party rival whom he had made Foreign Minister, Shimon Peres. Though the two men had grown to respect each another over the years, Rabin neither trusted, nor much liked, Shimon. I...
politics and vowing to defeat Labor, Bibi had seized on Oslo I to accuse Rabin of “surrendering” to Arafat, and by extension to Hamas terrorism. I couldn’t sleep the night before the cabinet meeting. I had no desire to be disloyal to Yitzhak. I certainly didn’t want to add to th...
also briefed Rabin after the election. At that stage, there was no discussion of whether we actually would, or should, target Saddam. I asked Misha, and then Yitzhak, only whether such an operation might seriously be considered by the government. If not, I said, we’d drop it. Bo...
11/5/2015 Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News times in your history been deserted. All Americans could take pride in President Clinton's splendid eulogy; in the uniqueness of America's compassion and friendship that extended beyon...
11/5/2015 News http:/Avww.usnews.com/news/the-report/articles/2015/1 1/04/yitzhak-rabins-m oral-answer-to-the-israeli-dilemma-of-peace-and-survival 3/4 Yitzhak Rabin's Moral Answer to the Israeli Dilemma of Peace and Survival - US News binational state in which one people rul...
precedent of doing nothing would, in my view, be very serious. I recommended that he approve the operation, and Rabin agreed. I attended the final briefing shortly afterwards. I was impressed by the determined faces of the men in the two sayeret teams. One of the officers was 23...
…Saeb Erekat: Though I was not the chief negotiator at that moment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, including myself, feel that peace was possible. There was significant progress in all tracks until Rabin's...
…had set for nine o’clock on Friday morning on the sayeret base. When they left, I joined Dan, Motta and Kuti to go see Rabin. Shimon Peres was there too. He would later say that, as Defence Minister, he was a crucial voice in pressing to go ahead with the rescue mission. He’s ri...
…ing engagements to other American cities. I was about to board a flight to Seattle in April when I got a message saying Rabin wanted to talk to me. After we took off, I used the on- board phone facility and, with a swipe of a credit card, was soon on the line to the Prime Ministe...
…Peres and our deputy foreign minister, even Peres didn’t know about the meeting until Yossi told him the following day. Rabin knew an hour later. I first learned of it from Uni Saguy, after Unit 8200 intercepted Arabic-language traffic concerning a briefing the Norwegians had giv...
…he Mouse than from the other talks, it’s hardly a surprise we’re finding that only Oslo seems to offer a way forward.” Rabin did make one more move, not so much in a bid to end the talks in Oslo as to slow them down and create a context more favorable for the kind of agreement h...