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Giora Ros in Jerusalem, I remember trying to imagine what “living 30 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011501 under siege” would feel like, and what would happen to Giora if it succeeded. Especially after the murder and the mutilation of The 35, I assumed the war would come down to a simple calculus. If there was going
ter Israel had defeated the armies of our three main Arab enemies — Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Israeli forces were advancing on a Jordanian town called Karameh, across the 5 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011476 Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had b
moratorium. “Rabin wants you immediately,” he said. “I guess we’ll tell him that ‘immediately’ will have to mean sometime in April.” In fact, I told Giora that I’d hoped it would be much longer. So we agreed that in order to give me at least a few months in the US, he’d tell Rabin he could get in touch
ut. My own hope was that the nod would go to any even closer friend of mine: Dan Shomron. I had first got to know Dan well in the late sixties after Karameh, Israel’s costly standoff with Arafat, when Fatah’s influence was in its infancy. We exchanged impressions on what had gone wrong, and why? When I be
Giora Ros in Jerusalem, I remember trying to imagine what “living 30 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027878 under siege” would feel like, and what would happen to Giora if it succeeded. Especially after the murder and the mutilation of The 35, I assumed the war would come down to a simple calculus. If there was going
ter Israel had defeated the armies of our three main Arab enemies — Egypt, Syria and Jordan. Israeli forces were advancing on a Jordanian town called Karameh, across the 5 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027853 Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had b
moratorium. "Rabin wants you immediately," he said. "I guess we'll tell him that 'immediately' will have to mean sometime in April." In fact, I told Giora that I'd hoped it would be much longer. So we agreed that in order to give me at least a few months in the US, he'd tell Rabin he could get in touch
rut. My own hope was that the nod would go to any even closer friend of mine: Dan Shomron. I had first got to know Dan well in the late sixties after Karameh, Israel's costly standoff with Arafat, when Fatah's influence was in its infancy. We exchanged impressions on what had gone wrong, and why? When I be
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Yasser Arafat
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Jerusalem
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Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Haifa
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Saddam Hussein
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Ehud Barak
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Knesset
ORGANIZATION
Beirut
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Lebanon
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Damascus
LOCATIONthe West Bank
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Likud
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the Golan Heights
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Yitzhak Rabin
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Mossad
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Hosni Mubarak
PERSONSharon
PERSONSinai
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Shimon Peres
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