3
Shared Docs
3
Same-Page
3 / 3
Mentions
GHT_011477 A decade later, the idea would suddenly resurface. In my first meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful,
before the arrival of the Jewish Sabbath, sitting with Rabin, who was then Israel’s Defence Minister. Our offices were along the same hallway of the Airya, the ministry’s headquarters in the heart of Tel Aviv. Rabin had a very low table in his office, with two chairs. We would sit across from each other
rs in the cabinet: Shamir, who was about to take his turn as Prime Minister in October 1986; Misha, now a minister without portfolio; and most of all Arik Sharon. In an astonishing demonstration of resilience and determination, not only had Arik remained as a minister without portfolio when Shamir succeeded Me
e were completing their takeover of Beirut airport. “You were right,” I told Uri and Yossi. They had been in charge of the simulation exercise in the Airya, predicting how Arik’s ostensibly more limited invasion plan would inevitably develop into Big Pines. Even as we were talking, 201 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_0
GHT_027854 A decade later, the idea would suddenly resurface. In my first meeting, as a newly promoted Major General, with our then Defence Minister Ariel Sharon, Sharon turned to me and the army’s Chief of Staff, Rafael Eitan, and said: “Tell me. Why the hell is Arafat still alive?” He looked first at Raful,
before the arrival of the Jewish Sabbath, sitting with Rabin, who was then Israel’s Defence Minister. Our offices were along the same hallway of the Airya, the ministry’s headquarters in the heart of Tel Aviv. Rabin had a very low table in his office, with two chairs. We would sit across from each other
Entities connected to both Ariel Sharon and Airya

Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Damascus
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
West Bank
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Barack Obama
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Ehud Barak
PERSONSharon
PERSON
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
Bashar al-Assad
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
Tunisia
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATION
Cairo
LOCATIONSinai
LOCATION
Shimon Peres
PERSON