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A conversation with the foreign minister of Israel and...
with Shlomo Ben-Ami and Amre Moussa on Sep 12, 2000
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with Shlomo Ben-Ami and Amre Moussa on Sep 12, 2000
Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Israeli diplomat, politician and historian.
When the Labor Party government of Ehud Barak took office in July 1999, Ben-Ami became the Minister of Public Security. In August 2000, when David Levy resigned as foreign minister of Israel during talks with Palestinian leaders in the United States, Barak designated Ben-Ami to be the acting foreign minister. He was officially appointed foreign minister in November 2000. During his time in the Barak government, he was a political rival of Shimon Peres.
Ben-Ami remained foreign minister and security minister until March 2001, when, having won elections, the government of Ariel Sharon took office. Ben-Ami refused to serve in the Sharon government. He became an author of books on Israeli issues. His latest book is “Scars of War, Wounds of Peace: The Israeli-Arab Tragedy” (2006). The book challenges many of the founding myths in Israel’s modern history especially the ones related to the war of independence and the way it’s depicted in the media.
