Every indexed document

the President blew up. Far from the “bottom lines” he’d

the document said: “I understand that such an agreement constitutes

but to a Palestinian state on the West Bank and

with an Israeli security zone for 12 years

such as the “right of return” and formal agreement to

and proceeded to outline the kind of peace we could accept

formal talks with the Palestinians in the

nearly all Israelis viewed the city as not just our

” Arafat was insisting that could come only after the terms of whatever

which appeared to bother the President much less than

a figure he now told me that he was assuming would end up at

and let them know that there will be a heavy price should they attack any of

we will have the power to stand together

and territory which we suggested would go to

” I replied. “Not when Arafat is simply holding firm and not showing a

that didn’t mean they would simply be forgotten. The

and to concentrate instead on how everyday

telling each side to proceed on the assumption

pretty much the same thing happened. The Americans

according to Shlomo. But he insisted that he would