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…ad indeed sent the Phalangists into the camps. I tried to reach Arik, but couldn’t get through to him. I contacted Oded Shamir, the former intelligence officer who was his main liaison with the army. I told him that if the Phalangists were inside the camps, he had to urge Arik to...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

…had become friendly. They, like me, were concerned about undermining the Americans’ military and diplomatic coalition. Shamir mostly listened, until very near the end. He then asked Dan Meridor, Misha and me to join him in a separate room. He asked each of us for our views. Mish...

Middle East Affairs, and four years later the United Nations envoy, Count Folke Bernadotte. “Why are you so strident,” Shamir asked me, only half-jokingly, after ’'d insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. “It’s because I’ve read th...

…ing had in Britain. A few weeks before the war, I boarded a private jet to London along with Halevy and Prime Minister Shamir. Shamir had never met the king before and nor, of course, had I. But we didn’t talk about the forthcoming meeting on the five-hour flight. Instead, Shami...

…formal. The main meeting came the next morning. Both sides recognized the seriousness of the issues we had to discuss. Shamir began with the one we assumed would be the least difficult. Israel was on a heightened state of military alert, prompted by Iraqi reconnaissance flights...

…tributing the gas masks and preparations for a possible military operation. So when I got a call asking me to report to Shamir’s office in Jerusalem, I assumed he wanted to talk about Iraq. “How are things?” he asked. But when I began by filling him in on the plans to distribute...

Shamir and Arens appeared in danger of losing

Misha and Shamir a few weeks before the war

Shamir rapped his hand on the table. In the

was Foreign Minister Yitzhak Shamir. Ideologically

from a former chief of staff who was now Shamir’s

Shamir opened up in a way I’d never seen: about his

like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984

“rotation” with Yitzhak Shamir, so that he could be in the government. He proposed the ideal of “national unity,” and greatly devalued the democratic concept of parliamentary opposition. Former Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni ruined her reputation when she refused to join Netanyahu...