Commentary and archival information about Menachem Begin from The New York Times. ... In its earlier invasions, Israel said its aim was to secure its northern frontier and stop cross-border ...

The Washington DC shootings have bought Netanyahu international sympathy – for now - COMMENT: The killing of two Israeli ...

Early one morning in spring 1978, Zbigniew Brzezinski, President Jimmy Carter’s sharp-elbowed national security adviser, ...

A hawkish Israeli leader, itching for a pretext to expand the war against Palestinian groups, seizes on the shooting of an Israeli diplomat in a foreign capital.

Carter's success at Camp David negotiating a Mideast Peace agreement between Egypt and Israel was one of his ... s Anwar Sadat and Israel’s Menachem Begin. Flanked by President Sadat and Prime ...

In “How Jimmy Carter and Menachem Begin Clashed Over ... Carter’s 1978 Camp David team describing Begin, then the prime minister of Israel, as “tenacious in negotiating with two formidable ...

Once a vocal supporter of the Palestinian cause, India stood firm against the creation of a religious state in 1947.

Avi Shilon is a historian specializing in Israel studies. He is the author of Menachem Begin: A Life (Yale University Press) and The Decline of the Left Wing in Israel.

What cynics will say of Jimmy Carter is that while he managed to get Israel's Menachem Begin and Egypt's Anwar Sadat to sign on the dotted line, he did not set in motion the foundation for a wider ...