Epstein Secrets

ears later after the=first President Bush refused to make aggressive statements about Gorbachev, who w=s then able to quietly withdraw support from Eastern Europe that led to the a=d of the Berlin Wall. The neocons simply misrepresented what happened and claimed that Reagan had followed their approach in deali

ween East and West, though he added there was still time to res=lve the growing dispute before it led to direct conflict. Reported by =he Telegraph, Gorbachev said: "Now there are once again signs of a Cold War." "This process can a=d must be stopped. After all, we did it in the 1980s. We opted for de-esc

s wife in their home in Jerusalem. There, but for Grace of God and the luck of having grandparents and great grandparents with the foresight to leave Eastern Europe, go I. If Sharanksy’s grandparents had come to America and mine had remained in Europe, our roles could easily have been reversed. That’s why helping

also lit Hanukkah candles in the White House. I then contrasted President Clinton’s warm actions with the response I received from former President Gorbachev several years earlier. I had been invited to speak at an international conference in the Kremlin, during the week of the Jewish New Year. I invited t

Jews of Silence,” which first alerted me to the plight of Soviet Jewish and non-Jewish dissidents. I traveled to the Soviet Union and other parts of Eastern Europe on several occasions during the 1970s and 1980s and filed briefs on behalf of dissidents Refusenicks and others. I have written extensively about thi

nto the same elevator. Remarkably, Mickael Gorbachev was also on the elevator. (I knew it sounds like the beginning of a bad joke: “Havel, Sharansky, Gorbachev and Dershowitz get into an elevator.”) Gorbachev turned to me and said, “You’re the big shot lawyer who tried to get these people out of prison. You