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...service, even heroic service, necessarily correlates with great presidential leadership is simply irrational. By that logic, Douglas MacArthur would have made a great President. By that logic, Ulysses S. Grant was a great President. (It's not just an American phenomenon: the most decorated veteran in Israel's history, Ehud Barak, was a disastrous Prime Minister.) Even more impressive is the fact that two of the greatest war Presidents in American history--Abraham Lincoln and Franklin Roosevelt--had military backgrounds that make Bush's look distinguished: Lincoln, minimal (less than half a year of militia duty); Roosevelt, none...
Some of the negotiators from both sides, acting in an unofficial capacity, decided that there would be great importance in informally continuing and completing the work of Taba. The point of departure was the lessons learned from the negotiating experience under former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak from November 1999 to January 2001 and the need to integrate and develop these lessons. Initially, the exercise focused on producing a detailed blueprint for an agreement on all issues, based on the conclusion that “constructive ambiguity” in relation to these issues had become damaging to the peace...
Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who once had access to the highest levels of his country’s vaunted intelligence services, clearly knew the story behind the statue’s mysterious sparkle...
...children, headed the Shin Bet's Gaza operations before he was chosen in 1995 to rebuild the organization's VIPprotection unit following the lapses that enabled an assassin to kill Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin that year. Dichter was promoted to the top job in 2000 by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. When the intifadeh broke out five months into Dichter's five-year term, he initiated a string of high-profile counteroperations that impressed Sharon even before he became Prime Minister. To kill Hamas operatives, Dichter had his agents hide explosives in telephone booths and car-seat headrests; he pushed...
...response to the failure of previous cease-fire initiatives. It sought to strengthen the chances for a truce by tying a cease-fire directly to a quick and sure march towards Palestinian statehood along the lines envisaged in the final talks between the Palestinian Authority and the government of Ehud Barak in their final talks at Taba in January 2001. The U.S. participated in the "quartet" discussions that initially shaped the plan, but Washington moved closer to Sharon's efforts to seek a military victory and endorsed his positions demanding the sidelining of PA president Yasser Arafat...