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People
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Organizations
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Locations
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Events
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Relationships
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Document Information
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Memoir / narrative account / investigative production
File Size:
2.09 MB
Summary
This document appears to be page 3 of a memoir or narrative account, stamped with a House Oversight code, likely written by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It details the departure from the failed Camp David summit in 2000, describing the flight home on an aging Boeing 707. The narrator reflects on his military past with this aircraft model, specifically recounting the 1972 Sabena hijacking rescue where Benjamin Netanyahu served under him and was wounded by friendly fire.
People (7)
| Name | Role | Context |
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| Ehud Barak | Narrator / Prime Minister of Israel (Implied) |
Author of the text, referring to 'my negotiating team', 'Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami', and leading the raid where...
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| Bill Clinton | US President |
Mentioned regarding the Camp David negotiations.
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| Madeleine Albright | US Secretary of State |
Mentioned regarding the Camp David negotiations.
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| Bibi Netanyahu | Junior Officer (Historical) |
Described as a junior officer under the narrator's command during the Sabena hijacking rescue; wounded by friendly fire.
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| Gilad Sher | Policy Co-ordinator |
Member of the negotiating team on the flight.
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| Danny Yatom | Security Aide |
Member of the negotiating team on the flight.
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| Shlomo Ben-Ami | Foreign Minister |
Member of the negotiating team on the flight.
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Organizations (3)
| Name | Type | Context |
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| El Al |
Israeli airline, referenced regarding pilot protection systems.
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| Sabena |
Airline involved in a historical hijacking mentioned in the text.
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| Matkal commandos |
Sayeret Matkal, the unit led by the narrator during the Sabena rescue.
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Timeline (3 events)
July 2000
Departure from Camp David Summit via Andrews Air Force Base.
Andrews Air Force Base / Atlantic Ocean
May 1972 (implied 'four years later')
Storming of hijacked Sabena flight.
Ben-Gurion Airport, Tel Aviv
Locations (5)
| Location | Context |
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Site of peace negotiations.
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Airport outside Washington where the Israeli plane was waiting.
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Location where an El Al plane was hijacked to in 1968.
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Tel Aviv airport, site of the Sabena hijacking rescue.
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Flight path location.
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Relationships (3)
Refers to Netanyahu as 'One of my men – a junior officer' during the Sabena operation.
Discussed the nature of Camp David negotiations together.
Identified as 'Foreign Minister' on the narrator's team.
Key Quotes (3)
"environment like Camp David – a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to Clinton"Source
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"One of my men – a junior officer named Bibi Netanyahu – was wounded. By one of our own bullets."Source
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"I was the one who ultimately decided what we could, or"Source
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the substance of any real peace – could not simply be put off forever.
Untangling them was getting harder, not easier. And we realised that only in an
environment like Camp David – a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to
Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – would we ever
discover whether a peace deal could in fact be done.
Untangling them was getting harder, not easier. And we realised that only in an
environment like Camp David – a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to
Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright – would we ever
discover whether a peace deal could in fact be done.
Now, we knew.
* * *
Israel’s equivalent of Air Force One, perhaps in a nod to our country’s
pioneering early years, was an almost prehistoric Boeing 707. It was waiting on
the runway at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington to ferry me and the
rest of our negotiating team back home.
pioneering early years, was an almost prehistoric Boeing 707. It was waiting on
the runway at Andrews Air Force Base outside Washington to ferry me and the
rest of our negotiating team back home.
It contained a low-rent equivalent of the American version’s presidential
cabin, and a few 1960s-vintage first-class seats, but consisted mostly of two
long lines of coach seats, three abreast, separated by an almost tightrope-narrow
aisle. I dare say I was alone in finding an odd sense of comfort in boarding the
plane. This museum piece of an aircraft was part of my past. It was the same
model of 707 for which I, with a couple of other young soldiers and engineers,
had come up with what we dubbed the “submarine door” system outside the
cockpit – to protect El Al pilots from future attacks after one of its planes had
been hijacked to Algiers in the summer of 1968. It was also the same kind of
plane – a Sabena flight, hijacked to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport – which I
stormed, before sunrise, four years later with a force of nearly two dozen
Matkal commandos. The shooting was over within 90 seconds. One of my men
– a junior officer named Bibi Netanyahu – was wounded. By one of our own
bullets. But we managed to kill two of the heavily armed hijackers, capture the
others, and free all 90 passengers unharmed.
cabin, and a few 1960s-vintage first-class seats, but consisted mostly of two
long lines of coach seats, three abreast, separated by an almost tightrope-narrow
aisle. I dare say I was alone in finding an odd sense of comfort in boarding the
plane. This museum piece of an aircraft was part of my past. It was the same
model of 707 for which I, with a couple of other young soldiers and engineers,
had come up with what we dubbed the “submarine door” system outside the
cockpit – to protect El Al pilots from future attacks after one of its planes had
been hijacked to Algiers in the summer of 1968. It was also the same kind of
plane – a Sabena flight, hijacked to Tel Aviv’s Ben-Gurion Airport – which I
stormed, before sunrise, four years later with a force of nearly two dozen
Matkal commandos. The shooting was over within 90 seconds. One of my men
– a junior officer named Bibi Netanyahu – was wounded. By one of our own
bullets. But we managed to kill two of the heavily armed hijackers, capture the
others, and free all 90 passengers unharmed.
Still, even I had to accept, it was no fun to fly on.
As we banked eastward after takeoff and headed out over the Atlantic, the
mood on board was sober. Huddling with the inner core of my negotiating team
– my policy co-ordinator Gilad Sher, security aide Danny Yatom and Foreign
Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami – I could see that the way the summit ended had hit
them hard. It was probably true, as all three often reminded me, that the greatest
pressure fell on me. I was the one who ultimately decided what we could, or
mood on board was sober. Huddling with the inner core of my negotiating team
– my policy co-ordinator Gilad Sher, security aide Danny Yatom and Foreign
Minister Shlomo Ben-Ami – I could see that the way the summit ended had hit
them hard. It was probably true, as all three often reminded me, that the greatest
pressure fell on me. I was the one who ultimately decided what we could, or
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