Epstein Secrets

15 Aug 2019 20:07:37 +0000 Mark, Thank you for your prompt reply my apologies on my slowness. Jumas I met once, in Lord Ahmed's chambers at Israel Shamir's book launch. If I recall, he was distressed with the Turkish ambassadors remark that Palestine was a swamp. Having lived in Turkey, I predicted

ly of Israel. But that was my only contact with Jumas, if you are talking about the MK who is in a small party that I think has not presence in the Knesset. Haim Oron. The only MK I have been close to lately is Sharon Haskell, the Likud member who convinced the Likud to make pot legal. I gave her a cop

15 Aug 2019 20:04:55 +0000 Mark, Thank you for your prompt reply my apologies on my slowness. Jumas I met once, in Lord Ahmed's chambers at Israel Shamir's book launch. If I recall, he was distressed with the Turkish ambassadors remark that Palestine was a swamp. Having lived in Turkey, I predicted

ly of Israel. But that was my only contact with Jumas, if you are talking about the MK who is in a small party that I think has not presence in the Knesset. Haim Oron. The only MK I have been close to lately is Sharon Haskell, the Likud member who convinced the Likud to make pot legal. I gave her a cop

212 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011683 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 rea

he pundits were now suggesting that Shimon Peres might bring Labor back to power. There was no prospect he’d win an outright majority in the 120-seat Knesset. No one had ever done that, not even Ben-Gurion in his political heyday. From 1948, Israel’s political landscape had been populated by at least a doz

her West Bank redeployments meandered ahead. We also discussed in detail how a unity government would work. We agreed it would be presented, like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984, as a cross- party response to an important challenge for the country: in this case, security and the peace process. I woul

quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, about the alternative on the Palestinian side if those who wanted a negotiated peace had nothing but stalemate to show f

r 212 HOUSE _OVERSIGHT_028060 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 I'd insisted on joining a government discussion and pressing several intelligence matters. "It's because I've rea

he pundits were now suggesting that Shimon Peres might bring Labor back to power. There was no prospect he'd win an outright majority in the 120-seat Knesset. No one had ever done that, not even Ben-Gurion in his political heyday. From 1948, Israel's political landscape had been populated by at least a doz

her West Bank redeployments meandered ahead. We also discussed in detail how a unity government would work. We agreed it would be presented, like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984, as a cross- party response to an important challenge for the country: in this case, security and the peace process. I woul

quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, about the alternative on the Palestinian side if those who wanted a negotiated peace had nothing but stalemate to show f