Israel-Palestine from Both Sides of the Mirror
By Roger Cohen
The New York Times, June 16, 2017
This month marks the 50th anniversary of the Israeli victory in the 1967 war and of Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. The jubilation of military victory, quicker and more comprehensive than seemed possible, has long since subsided into a grinding status quo: the oppression of 2.5 million Palestinians in the West Bank, the confrontation with 1.8 million in encircled Hamas-run Gaza and the corrosion of Israeli democracy that accompanies this extended exercise in dominion. Often called unsustainable, the occupation has proved altogether sustainable .
Netanyahu lambasted for incitement in insider’s Rabin biography
Former diplomat Itamar Rabinovich paints a dark ‘j’accuse’ against the Israeli right, leading up to and following the prime minister’s assassination
BY JP O’ MALLEY, Times of Israel, March 19, 2017
INTERVIEW / 'I can draw a direct line from those six months [after Rabin's murder] to present day developments in Israel '
LONDON — On November 4, 1995, 24-year-old law student Yigal Amir assassinated Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin by firing three bullets into his back.
Kerry’s Path Steepens in Israeli-Palestinian Talks
Kerry’s Path Steepens in Israeli-Palestinian Talks
By MARK LANDLER and JODI RUDOREN
The New York Times, November 6, 2013
BETHLEHEM, West Bank — Secretary of State John Kerry’s uphill path to a peace accord between Israel and the Palestinians seemed ever steeper on Wednesday, as the two sides clashed bitterly over Jewish settlements in the West Bank, while the exoneration of a right-wing Israeli politician threatened to inject a volatile element into the talks.
From Waging Peace to the Lingering Conflict: An Interview with Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich
December 20th, 2011 12:16 pm
by Lisa Eisen
When Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich published his book, “Waging Peace: Israel and the Arabs, 1948-2003,” in 2004, the title conveyed the optimism he felt about the prospect of achieving normalized Arab-Israeli relations. The book focused primarily on the 1990s, during which Rabinovich—who served as Israel’s chief negotiator with Syria from 1992 to 1995 and Israel’s ambassador to the U.S. from 1993 to 1996—had high hopes for the peace process.
Questions and Answers: A conversation with Itamar Rabinovich
Questions and Answers: A conversation with Itamar Rabinovich By David B. Green, 09/12/2008
Itamar Rabinovich has long been one of the calmer and more insightful analysts of Israel's relations with the Arab world. For four years during the 1990s, when Yitzhak Rabin and Shimon Peres were prime ministers, Rabinovich was also a "player," as Israel's ambassador to the United States, and as the head of its negotiating team with Syria. Rabinovich, who is a scholar of modern Syria, has just published a highly readable collection of essays on that subject, "The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria" (Vallentine-Mitchell; 371 pages).