Arik - The Life Of Ariel Sharon (101 page)

1.
Yitzhak Navon, personal archives.

2.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
158.

3.
Ibid.

4.
Peres interview.

5.
Hefez and Bloom,
Shepherd,
146.

6.
Benziman,
Sharon,
82.

7.
Strangely, that date is inaccurate: the correct date was May 6.

8.
Anonymous interview, Tel Aviv, November 2006.

9.
Sarit Yishai-Levy,
Hadashot,
September 11, 1988.

10.
Benziman,
Sharon,
87.

11.
Rabin,
Service Notebook,
1:118.

12.
Ibid., 119–20.

13.
Ehud Barak interview, Tel Aviv, July 23, 2006.

14.
Rabin,
Service Notebook,
1:118.

15.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
179.

16.
Yael Dayan,
Soldier’s Diary,
8.

17.
Zippori,
In a Straight Line,
150.

18.
Bregman,
Israel’s Wars
, 68.

19.
Colonel (res.) Ami Gluska, Hebrew University of Jerusalem doctoral thesis, cited in Amir Oren, “IDF Research Paper: Sharon Spoke with Rabin in 1967 About ‘Seizing Power to Take a Decision’ to Go to War,”
Haaretz,
November 16, 2004; Ami Gluska,
Eshkol, Give the Order
(Tel Aviv: Ministry of Defense, 2004).

20.
Peres,
Ben-Gurion,
193.

21.
Ze’ev Schiff, “Surprising Conversations,”
Haaretz,
June 1, 2007.

22.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
185.

23.
Bregman,
Israel’s Wars
, 81; Rabin,
Service Notebook,
1:182.

24.
Benziman,
Sharon,
95.

25.
Rabin,
Service Notebook,
1:188.

26.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
201.

27.
Nir Mann, “History Doesn’t Repeat Itself,”
Yedioth Ahronoth,
June 1, 2007.

28.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
214.

29.
Shmuel Tamir,
Son of This Land,
1,411.

30.
Benziman,
Sharon,
106.

31.
Ibid.

32.
Hefez and Bloom,
Shepherd,
189.

33.
Bregman,
Israel’s Wars,
93, citing Abdel Magid Farid, secretary-general of the Egyptian presidency, in his
Nasser: The Final Years
(Reading, U.K.: Ithaca Press, 1994).

34.
Adan,
On the Banks of the Suez,
43.

35.
Herzog,
War of Atonement,
5–12.

36.
Hefez and Bloom,
Shepherd,
202.

37.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
238.

38.
Ibid., 231.

39.
Ze’ev Schiff, “Argument in Gaza,”
Haaretz,
March 2, 1972.

40.
Benziman,
Sharon,
117.

41.
“Not a Single Minister Proposed Bringing Back the Bedouin,”
Maariv,
May 5, 1972.

42.
Nadel,
Between the Two Wars,
133.

43.
Adan,
On the Banks of the Suez,
247.

44.
Herzog,
War of Atonement,
22.

45.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
264.

46.
Hefez and Bloom,
Shepherd,
222.

47.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
271.

48.
Ran Kislev, “He Offered Himself as a Minister,”
Haaretz,
July 13, 1973.

49.
Dan,
Ariel Sharon,
57.

50.
“Sharon Calls for an Alternative Alignment Against the Ruling Alignment of Labor-Mapam,”
Maariv,
July 18, 1973.

51.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
266.

1.
Herzog,
War of Atonement
, 151.

2.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
269–70.

3.
Ibid., 288.

4.
Argaman,
Pale Was the Night,
285. The book is a biography of Dr. Pinhas Sussman, who served as commander of Sharon’s war room during the
Yom Kippur War and, two decades later, as director general of the Ministry of Defense when Sharon w
as prime minister.

5.
Ibid.

6.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
294–95.

7.
“Sharon to the Commission: I Tried to Rescue the Strongpoints,”
Haaretz,
January 1, 1995.

8.
Bergman and Meltzer,
Yom Kippur War,
79.

9.
Protocol: Consultation with the Prime Minister, July 10, 1973, 2:50 p.m.

10.
Bartov,
Dado,
2:74; Herzog
, War of Atonement
, 84, 2:73–74.

11.
Bartov,
Dado,
2:74.

12.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
299.

13.
Bartov,
Dado,
2:86.

14.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
301–2.

15.
Adan,
On the Banks of the Suez,
130.

16.
Protocol: Consultation with the Prime Minister, August 10, 1973, 7:50 p.m. Lieutenant General (res.) Haim Bar-Lev and Minister Yigal Allon report on their tour of the fronts.

17.
Ze’ev Schiff, “The Rashomon Effect on October 8,”
Haaretz,
December 7, 1975.

18.
Yehoshua Saguy interview, Rishon Lezion, August 30, 2007.

19.
Avraham Tamir interviews, Tel Aviv, August 20, 24, 2006.

20.
Asher Levy interview, Tel Aviv, March 12, 2008.

21.
Protocol: Consultation with the Prime Minister, August 10, 1973, 7:50 p.m.

22.
Protocol: Consultation with the Prime Minister, September 10, 1973, 7:30 a.m.

23.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
305.

24.
Bergman and Meltzer,
Yom Kippur War,
157.

25.
Argaman,
Pale Was the Night,
302.

26.
Excerpts from radio recordings; Bergman and Meltzer,
Yom Kippur War,
140–50.

27.
Amnon Reshef interviews, Tel Aviv, October 17, 31, 2006.

28.
Herzog,
War of Atonement
, 194–95.

29.
Bartov,
Dado,
2:132.

30.
Benziman,
Sharon,
145–47.

31.
Altschuler interview, August 20, 2006.

32.
Tamir interview.

33.
Herzog,
War of Atonement
, 199.

34.
Gai,
Bar-Lev,
258.

35.
Adan,
On the Banks of the Suez,
163–65.

36.
Herzog,
War of Atonement,
203–6.

37.
Ibid.

38.
“Sharon: A Bit Complicated, but Doable,” tape recordings,
Ynet,
May 9, 2011.

39.
Herzog,
Arab-Israeli Wars,
212.

40.
Reshef interview, October 17, 31, 2006.

41.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
315–19.

42.
Reshef interview, October 17, 31, 2006.

43.
Bartov,
Dado,
2:242–47.

44.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
325–26.

45.
Jackie Even interviews, Holon, September 21, 25, 2006.

46.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
328.

47.
Ibid., 330.

48.
Herzog,
War of Atonement
, 242.

49.
Schiff,
October Earthquake,
226.

50.
Tamir interview, August 20, 2006.

51.
Asher Levy interview, March 12, 2008.

1.
Ehud Barak interview, Tel Aviv, July 2006.

2.
Bar-Lev had demobilized by then and returned to his ministry desk, and so his interview, the army explained, unlike Sharon’s, was not an infringement of the rules. The author, then a young writer on
The Jerusalem Post,
derided this distinction in an article headlined “Why Criticize Sharon and Not Bar-Lev?”

3.
“Arik Sharon: Agreement with Egypt Cannot Be Based on Trusting Sadat,”
Maariv,
January 21, 1974.

4.
Meir,
My Life
, 378.

5.
Uri Avneri, “Arik, King of Israel: Man of the Year, 1980–81,”
HaOlam Hazeh,
September 27, 1981.

6.
Yoel Marcus, “Sharon and Dayan: Gods Again,”
Haaretz,
February 21, 1975.

7.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
331.

8.
“Evidence Before the Agranat Commission,”
Yedioth Ahronoth,
October 8, 2008.

9.
Benziman,
Sharon,
180.

10.
Avraham Tamir,
Soldier in Search of Peace,
10.

11.
Rabin,
Service Notebook,
2:550.

12.
Ibid.

13.
Knesset Record,
July 31, 1974.

14.
Yaacov Erez and Yosef Walter, “ ‘A Good Deal,’ the Negotiators Rejoiced,”
Maariv,
December 9, 1975.

15.
Eldar and Zertal,
Lords of the Land,
73.

16.
Yair Kotler, “Let’s Talk Like a Couple of Horse Thieves,”
Haaretz,
November 26, 1976.

17.
“ ‘Sharon Is a Danger to Democracy,’ Ehrlich Wrote in ’77,”
Yedioth Ahronoth,
July 1, 1983.

18.
Amnon Barzilai, “Sharon: A Supreme Effort to Save Israel,”
Haaretz,
November 17, 1976.

19.
Moshe Nissim interview, Tel Aviv, January 9, 2008.

20.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
31–32.

1.
Hefez and Bloom,
Shepherd,
318.

2.
Moshe Dayan,
Shall the Sword Devour Forever?,
17–18.

3.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
165–66.

4.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
369–70.

5.
Boaz Gaon, “What Happened to Arik?,”
NRG,
June 5, 2003.

6.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
354.

7.
Ibid.

8.
Aluf Benn, “The Settlers Have No Property Rights over Their Homes,”
Haaretz,
April 5, 2004.

9.
Avraham Tamir,
Soldier in Search of Peace,
41; Ezer Weizman,
The Battle for Peace,
342.

10.
Chief Justice Barak referred to Begin’s response in a speech in 2007: “Without Judges There Will Be No Democracy,”
Haaretz,
November 7, 2007.

11.
Motion for the Agenda, Yossi Sarid (Labor): To Evacuate Elon Moreh,
Knesset Record,
December 12, 1979.

12.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
214; Shilon,
Begin, 1913–1992,
338.

13.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
386.

14.
Shilon,
Begin, 1913–1992,
329.

15.
Moshe Arens interview, Tel Aviv, May 30, 2006.

16.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
259–62.

17.
Uri Avneri, “Arik, King of Israel,”
HaOlam Hazeh,
September 27, 1981.

18.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
366.

19.
“The Battle for the Mountain,”
Haaretz,
December 28, 2001.

20.
Hagar Lahav, “MK el-Sana: Arabs Become Unwilling Building Offenders Because of Government Policy,”
Haaretz,
October 31, 1996.

21.
“War of Notes,”
Haaretz,
April 13, 2007.

22.
Arye Naor, in the documentary film
Tammuz,
dir. Nir Toib, 2006.

23.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
262.

24.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
430.

25.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
262–65.

26.
Teddy Preuss, “Sharon Could Use the IDF for Internal Purposes and Embroil Us Abroad,”
Davar,
July 17, 1981.

27.
Arye Naor testimony, December 26, 2000, and January 8, 2001, Begin Heritage Center Archives.

28.
Sima Kadmon, “Arik Sharon: Interview,”
Maariv,
July 8, 1994.

29.
Ben Caspit, “At Oslo They Were Amateurs,”
Maariv,
December 7, 1997.

30.
Yosef Waxman, “Begin Will Decide When Yamit Is to Be Evacuated,”
Maariv,
January 4, 1982.

31.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
402.

32.
Ambassador Samuel W. Lewis, interview with Peter Jessup, August 9, 1998, Association for Diplomatic Studies and Training, Foreign Affairs Oral History Project.

33.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
414.

34.
Yossi Melman, “Captain America,”
Haaretz,
September 26, 2008.

35.
Sam Lewis interview, Jerusalem, 2010.

36.
Shiffer,
Snowball,
53.

37.
Naor,
Begin in Power,
268.

38.
Shiffer,
Snowball,
66.

39.
Ibid.

40.
Ariel Sharon,
Warrior,
439.

41.
Avi Bettleheim and Avraham Tirosh, “Begin Proposed War in Lebanon in December 1981 After the Golan Law,” special report,
Maariv,
June 3, 1983.

42.
Schiff and Ya’ari,
False War,
117.

43.
Yeshayahu Ben Porat, “Conversations with Arik Sharon,”
Yedioth Ahronoth,
June 10, 1983.

44.
Minister of Energy Yitzhak Berman, interviewed by Israel TV in
A Second Look—the Road to Lebanon,
broadcast June 6, 1989, Israel Broadcasting Authority archive, 4249–4256/01.