Epstein Secrets

igence and a sardonic sense of humor. Both had tested the patience of our teachers to breaking point. Ido had been sent off to a vocational school in Netanya. Moshe was moved to Mikveh Israel, a school which focused mostly on agriculture. On Friday evenings and Saturdays in the kibbutz, however, they fille

e, Bibi Netanyahu. Much of what I say in this book about war and peace, security and Israel’s future challenges, will make uncomfortable reading for Bibi. But very little of it will surprise him, or his own Likud rivals further to the right, like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the Economy Minis

ures and chart a way forward. So what is that way? It begins with the mindset. On more than one occasion in the past few years, after Prime Minister Netanyahu had warned our country of a nuclear Iran or the spread of Al Qaeda-style hatred and violence, as if prophesying the coming of Armageddon, I would say

forces unit that could fight as well. Early in 1963, we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen, a veteran of France’s colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and commander of the airborne commando force known as the 11" Demi-brigade Parchutistes de Choc. As the colonel looked on, I led a sayer

igence and a sardonic sense of humor. Both had tested the patience of our teachers to breaking point. Ido had been sent off to a vocational school in Netanya. Moshe was moved to Mikveh Israel, a school which focused mostly on agriculture. On Friday evenings and Saturdays in the kibbutz, however, they fille

e, Bibi Netanyahu. Much of what I say in this book about war and peace, security and Israel’s future challenges, will make uncomfortable reading for Bibi. But very little of it will surprise him, or his own Likud rivals further to the right, like Foreign Minister Avigdor Lieberman and the Economy Minis

ures and chart a way forward. So what is that way? It begins with the mindset. On more than one occasion in the past few years, after Prime Minister Netanyahu had warned our country of a nuclear Iran or the spread of Al Qaeda-style hatred and violence, as if prophesying the coming of Armageddon, I would say

forces unit that could fight as well. Early in 1963, we hosted a visit to the unit by Colonel Albert Merglen, a veteran of France's colonial wars in Indochina and Algeria, and commander of the airborne commando force known as the 11* Demi-brigade Parchutistes de Choc. As the colonel looked on, I led a sayer

o when it comes to relative power, Israel enjoys an immense edge, which the Israeli government has no intention of surrendering. For Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the "peace process" is not a means to settle differences through compromise or give-and-take. It's a mechanism to enshrine hard-earned Israeli adv

ive-and-take. It's a mechanism to enshrine hard-earned Israeli advantages in perpetuity. Several years ago, in outlining his own "vision of peace," Netanyahu spelled out the implications of this approach. "If we get a guarantee of demilitarization," he remarked, "we are ready to agree to a real peace ag

to "respond vigorously at places and with means of its own choosing," including the use of atomic weapons against China, if it expanded the war in Indochina in 1954, had an impact: the Chinese leadership modified its position and pressured the Viet Minh to make concessions for a negotiated settlement.