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116110
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2013.
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Ehud Barak is one of Israel's most important leaders -- and also one of its most enigmatic and controversial. As defense minister in the current government, Barak prosecuted the November Gaza campaign, handles the Palestinian brief, and, along with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, gets the last word on whether to attack Iran -- Israel's most pressing security concern despite the recent focus on Hamas. Given the pariah status of Israel's foreign minister, Avigdor Lieberman, Barak, a frequent presence in Washington, essentially covers that portfolio as well. Yet despite 35 years of military service and more than a decade in public life, Barak remains something of a cipher -- a man one of Israel's leading columnists, Ari Shavit, compares to a stealth bomber ("the usual radar doesn't capture him"). "I don't know anyone more difficult to read," Shavit says.
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103896
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2011.
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This paper (derived from the author's dissertation) is written from an Israeli perspective and examines the Israeli political leadership's Grand Strategy and Defence policy and approach to the use of force in the 2009 Gaza Campaign. It examines whether the Israeli Asymmetrical Deterrence approach, as implemented in the Gaza Campaign, will lead to a new era of reconciliation in the Middle East, or whether the region on its way to another period of increased bloodshed. Drawing upon the geopolitical struggle in the region as well as analysing the challenges of Grand Strategy, the Nature of War, Deterrence and the so called idea of 'Victory,' in the contemporary Middle East, this paper sets out to demonstrate how an historic and strategic opportunity to achieve a stable and secure solution between Israel and the Palestinians has emerged. The aim, therefore, is to examine the Israeli strategic perceptions and the author's interpretations of the course of events in Gaza 2009, and as such is written from an Israeli point of view.
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