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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

they were not part of Lebanon. I’d met their Syrian inhabitants when I

known as the Sheba’a Farms. But as I knew

there were accusations from Hizbollah and its

alongside Shaul Mofaz at a command post on the border

we did have to hold off for a further 36 hours