4
Shared Docs
4
Same-Page
4 / 4
Mentions
cross the Jordan River, in a town called Karameh. From early 1968, they had been launching hit- and-run raids, not just on the West Bank but into the Negev. Eshkol’s cabinet was initially divided on whether to attack his base in Jordan, in both an act of retaliation and a signal to King Hussein that if h
ght for an experimental agricultural facility located just a few miles back from our side of the Suez Canal. On Israeli military maps, it was called the Chinese Farm. In fact, it was Japanese experts who helped set it up in the then-Egyptian Sinai before the Six- Day War. When we captured it in 1967, deciphering t
rrowest of margins, might determine the outcome. After the 1996 election, I’d learned of cases where Peres volunteers outside polling stations in the Negev or the north of the country had left early, in order to make sure they’d be back to Tel Aviv in time for the “moment of victory.” Now, I sent out wor
id call me back later in the day to say Bibi insisted that he’d had nothing to do with the leak. My guess was that the source was my old comrade from the Chinese Farm, Yitzhik Mordechai, who had presumably heard that Bibi was ready to make me Defense Minister as part of a unity government. There was, of course, alr
cross the Jordan River, in a town called Karameh. From early 1968, they had been launching hit- and-run raids, not just on the West Bank but into the Negev. Eshkol's cabinet was initially divided on whether to attack his base in Jordan, in both an act of retaliation and a signal to King Hussein that if h
ht for an experimental agricultural facility located just a few miles back from our side of the Suez Canal. * On Israeli military maps, it was called the Chinese Farm. In fact, it was Japanese experts who helped set it up in the then-Egyptian Sinai before the Six- Day War. When we captured it in 1967, deciphering t
rrowest of margins, might determine the outcome. After the 1996 election, I'd learned of cases where Peres volunteers outside polling stations in the Negev or the north of the country had left early, in order to make sure they'd be back to Tel Aviv in time for the "moment of victory." Now, I sent out wor
id call me back later in the day to say Bibi insisted that he'd had nothing to do with the leak. My guess was that the source was my old comrade from the Chinese Farm, Yitzhik Mordechai, who had presumably heard that Bibi was ready to make me Defense Minister as part of a unity government. There was, of course, alr
Entities connected to both Negev and the Chinese Farm

George W. Bush
PERSON
Lebanon
LOCATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSONthe West Bank
LOCATION
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Yasser Arafat
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Knesset
ORGANIZATION
the Jordan River
LOCATION
the Golan Heights
LOCATION
Barack Obama
PERSONSinai
LOCATION
Haifa
LOCATION
Golan
LOCATION
Ehud Barak
PERSON
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Yitzhak Rabin
PERSON