the prospects suddenly looked much worse –
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he could phone Assad and tell him that I had
but without any of the trappings we were insisting on.
were Labor supporters. And almost no Israel
even though Bibi had been ready to do just that when
from top military and party figures. In Israel
due to domestic political opposition. Syria had a tightly state-controlled
the focus did finally shift to the Syrians. President Assad suddenly
pledge to “do what is necessary” for peace.
a responsibility I pledged that we would do
at which Leah spoke very movingly of the need for both sides to
held on the fourth anniversary of Rabin’s
on the model of the Begin-Sadat Camp David accords
there could be no substantive progress. This was particularly
” without a prior agreement that he’d get
until well into the autumn of 1999 President Assad was holding firm on
to do so would run against the founding purpose of
the option of simply watching and waiting
all of that had been turned on its head. We had not only learned the
they would realize they needed to sue for peace