Epstein Secrets

was trying to do for the Palestinians what Ben-Gurion had done before 1948. He and I met and talked often but discreetly - sometimes in his office in Ramallah, sometimes in mine, sometimes over dinner in the 3 1st -floor flat I was renting in central Tel Aviv. I remember one dinner in particular. I led him

s and cities of the West Bank. 413 HOUSE _OVERSIGHT_028261 / BARAK / 128 I issued a standing directive in the kirya that we should agree to anything Fayyad asked for, as long as there no security reason to say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the

f Fayyad succeeded in what he was trying to accomplish, it would be a benefit not just for the Palestinians, but for Israel too. Bibi was agnostic on Fayyad's efforts. Yet he recognized they did no harm. And in a way, my support for them was politically convenient. To the extent the international communit

d Hamas politburo head Khaled Meshal clasping each other's shoulders in Cairo in May was accordingly greeted with hope, but also much wariness, in Ramallah. "They are like two prisoners fighting over scraps of bread, instead of working on getting out of jail," said one coffee shop patron over his water

President Mahmoud Abbas's insistence that it should be headed by his current prime minister, Salam Fayyad, infuriated Hamas. The Islamists loathe Fayyad, who has overseen a four-year crackdown on their membership in the West Bank in cooperation with Israeli forces, as much as he is feted by Western

was trying to do for the Palestinians what Ben-Gurion had done before 1948. He and I met and talked often but discreetly — sometimes in his office in Ramallah, sometimes in mine, sometimes over dinner in the 31*-floor flat I was renting in central Tel Aviv. I remember one dinner in particular. I led him ont

and cities of the West Bank. 413 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011884 / BARAK / 128 I issued a standing directive in the kirya that we should agree to anything Fayyad asked for, as long as there no security reason to say no. We ended up arranging a direct source of fuel supply to Jenin, on the northern edge of the

ational Interest Another Revolution Betrayed Walter Laqueur EFTA00586633 NYT The Long Overdue Palestinian State Mahmoud Abbas May 16, 2011 -- Ramallah, West Bank -- SIXTY-THREE years ago, a 13-year-old Palestinian boy was forced to leave his home in the Galilean city of Safed and flee with his fam

ntal view of the world. While Netanyahu and the gerontocrats of the American Jewish establishment yearn for a return to the days of George W. Bush, Fayyad has developed a strategy for the post-American age. He knows that if Netanyahu continues to EFTA00586644 13 entrench the occupation and Palestin

August 2004 OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 12/9/2014, SPi Chronology xxv Israel launches operation Defense Shield, placing Arafat under siege in his Ramallah compound, the Mugata. Security Council Resolution 1402. European Parliament votes to suspend Euro-Israeli association agreement. The Battle of Jen

ama’s Cairo Speech. 14 June 2009 Prime Minister Netanyahu’s Speech at Bar Ilan University. 25 August 2009 Ending Occupation, Establishing the State: Fayyad Plan. 25 September 2009 Report of the United Nations fact finding mission on the Gaza conflict: the Goldstone report. 31 May 2010 Gaza Flotilla Inc

spheres of authority can remain perfectly, even harmoniously separate. Arabs use the road to get to the Palestinian-controlled cities of Bir Zeit and Ramallah; for Jewish Israelis, the road connects the Jerusalem HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_025070 --- PAGE BREAK --- area to settlements deep inside the northern half

ostering the end of violent resistance in the West Bank in the years after the bloody Second Intifada, coupled with Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad's widely-respected institution- building initiative, could get a crucial private sector assist through Rawabi's eventual success. And Rawabi gets at

spheres of authority can remain perfectly, even harmoniously separate. Arabs use the road to get to the Palestinian-controlled cities of Bir Zeit and Ramallah; for Jewish Israelis, the road connects the Jerusalem HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_028704 --- PAGE BREAK --- area to settlements deep inside the northern half o

ostering the end of violent resistance in the West Bank in the years after the bloody Second Intifada, coupled with Palestinian Prime Minister Salaam Fayyad's widely-respected institution- building initiative, could get a crucial private sector assist through Rawabi's eventual success. And Rawabi gets at