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aware of the political risk he’d be taking. Like Dennis

she carried a request from the Palestinian leader: two weeks

as I hoped and trusted he understood was that if

Dennis. You know I’m serious about this. Of course

final negotiations with Arafat. “We’ll not reveal anything you tell us

he also recognized I was ready to go further than any

Bush Senior and now Clinton. No American diplomat had been

knowledgeable and experienced. He’d worked under three US

they were in the back garden sipping lemonade and munching on

had gone beyond anything that I would or

I had confidence he would make the effort. I had

time away from Jerusalem or Tel Aviv. Some of my oldest army

along with the obvious reward of a full and final peace if it

the reaction in Israel to the summit and what came after it.

I viewed the political risk as just one of many

but mostly because of what I’d done for the three-and-a-half decades

either to myself or my country. The second option

meandering path. But even though Bibi had slowed it

and only six months from an American election that

I decided to call their bluff. Through the Americans