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"Richard N. Haass, President of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2003"

"previously served as Director of Policy Planning for the US State Department (2001-2003)"

"was President George W. Bush's special envoy to Northern Ireland and Pakistan"

"SPIEGEL ONLINE columnist Jakob Augstein"

"Then president of the Bundestag, Jenninger"

"My wife tries to be consoling about mortality and assures me that death is a natural part of life"

"Barak and Netanyahu, moreover, aren't just ordinary veterans. They served together in Sayeret Matkal... they retain a deep and genuine bond."

"I was the commander of his unit"

"Barak's eyes light up with real affection when he speaks about his former lieutenant; he describes Netanyahu"

"at Camp David with Yasir Arafat"

"Lieberman and Olmert, both of whom have been convicted of criminal charges"

"Lieberman and Olmert, both of whom have been convicted of criminal charges"

"Aluf Benn, editor in chief of Haaretz"

"Ruprecht Polenz, a member of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union (CDU)"

"Hermann Grohe, secretary general of the CDU"

"Sigmar Gabriel, chair of the Social Democratic Party (SPD)"

"Mollemann, a top politician in the Free Democratic Party (FDP)"

"FDP party head Guido Westerwelle"

"Hans-Ulrich Klose, the SPD's top politician on foreign policy issues"

"Julia Klockner, 40, head of the CDU in the federal state of Rhineland-Palatinate"

"drafted into the left-wing Labor Party by his mentor"

"From: Office of Terje Rod-Larsen"

"Retaking control of Labor from the feckless Amir Peretz"

"Retaking control of Labor from the feckless Amir Peretz"

"leading four other legislators out of Labor and into a new party, Atzmaut (Independence)"

"inside Barak's cramped, drab parliamentary office"

"After becoming, with Netanyahu, the most forceful advocate of an attack on Iran"

"As he told me the day after our first meeting"

"He told me the explanation for the change was simple"

"he told me - they just might do so anyway"

"he told me, gesturing at a big world map"

"Israel, he said, is heading into 'a historic tragedy'"

"Nahum Barnea... described Barak's efforts last spring and summer to me"

"Shimon Peres... pursued peace talks with Arafat"

"his much more impressive office atop the towering Ministry of Defense building"

"his move to split Labor"

"his hopes now rest on the loyalty of his old lieutenant, Netanyahu"

"when we first met, he wouldn't really engage until he'd grilled me on my professional and intellectual credentials"

"Shimon Stein, former Israeli ambassador to Germany, was even a private guest at Merkel's weekend house"

"Merkel excluded him from the CDU's parliamentary group as a result"

"Barak became his closest confidant and most powerful adviser"

"drafted into the left-wing Labor Party by his mentor, then Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin"

"Barak and Netanyahu were willing to push President Barack Obama to go much further in making a commitment to prevention... described Barak's efforts.."

"The email contains articles and analysis, specifically one authored by Richard N. Haass which matches the subject matter of the update."

"Rabin... who later received the Nobel Peace Prize for his shepherding of the Oslo accords"

"Barak himself blames Arafat for the collapse of the Camp David talks and says that all he did was 'unmask' the Palestinian leader"

"Mr Netanyahu has even defied the president of the US... When Barack Obama took office in 2009, his administration demanded a halt to Israeli settlemen"

"within Mr Netanyahu's own Likud party"

"Daniel Levy of the European Council on Foreign Relations says"