Where Clinton appears
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…alm Beach grand jury proposed solely a solicitation charge. But Epstein’s flamboyance and his friendship with Clinton invited the scrutiny of the Bush FBI, and ultimately Epstein and his legal team decided to go for a plea deal. The result...
…at on another occasion, Mr Epstein flew two young women to a dinner for the purpose of entertaining President Clinton. She claims she herself was sex trafficked to several other men, whose contact information is contained in an address book...
/ BARAK / 54 Chapter Twenty-One President Clinton and I met the next morning. My aim was to persuade him that the time had come for a make-or-break summit with Yasir Arafat. I suspected it would not be easy to convince him, and it wasn’t. B...
…, written ten years after the fact. She names a number of people as being at Epstein’s Island home, including Clinton and Al Gore and his wife, who Epstein’s lawyers insists were never there—proof available through secret service records. T...
…erica’s alliance with Israel. I had dealt face-to-face with four US presidents: both of the Bushes, President Clinton and now President Obama. In terms of Israeli security, none had proved as consistently supportive and helpful as Obama. An...
…the details, of a final peace between our peoples were now clear. I was on holiday in the summer of 2001 when Clinton phoned me. The New Times had run a piece on how and why the summit, and the subsequent negotiations through the end of the...
…oth sides could come back with reservations, if any of these fell outside the substantive limits of President Clinton’s parameters, the response would be interpreted as a “no” and our search for an agreement would be over. Clinton’s latest...
…of six years, after which our soldiers would be replaced by an international force. On refugees, the solution Clinton proposed would “make it clear there is no specific right of return to Israeli itself” but recognize “the aspiration of the...
…gs, not for the photo opportunities. I did still believe it was important to see the final diplomatic push by Clinton through to its end. But I knew an early election for Prime Minister wouldn’t happen overnight. It would involve a couple o...
… clear my support was ebbing away. Looking ahead to the 385 / BARAK / 100 challenges Israel would face during Clinton’s final period in office and afterwards, I knew I could not go further without seeking a fresh mandate from the country, h...
…ent, and that my own prospects for retaining sufficient support to be an effective Prime Minister much beyond Clinton’s departure were not much better. It was not just Arik and the Likud, but other parties on the right that were actively at...
…iolence. I knew Shas’s support would waver if there was a resumption of serious peace negotiations. Still, as Clinton continued to insist we make one final attempt to get a deal, I felt we had a responsibility to play our part. I wasn’t pre...
were parameters he could accept. Arafat had said yes. I assume they expected me to say the same. But I told them I couldn’t give them an answer. What concerned me now was the violence. Until it was reined in, I would not be party to rewardi...
…only, brief, lull came when Arafat feared the Americans would cancel his scheduled visit to Washington to see Clinton on November 9. I was due to follow him three days later. I met Clinton and Dennis Ross over dinner in a little kitchen are...
…, we will regard this as a cessation by Arafat of the peace process.” That did, briefly, have an effect. When Clinton reinforced my message later in the day, Dennis told me that for the first time, he sensed that Arafat realized he had to a...
…, we will regard this as a cessation by Arafat of the peace process.” That did, briefly, have an effect. When Clinton reinforced my message later in the day, Dennis told me that for the first time, he sensed that Arafat realized he had to a...
nnis Ross, at the US ambassador’s residence Paris. It was nominally under the aegis of President 380 / BARAK / 95 Chirac, but the understanding was that Madeleine would be in charge. Far from showing any willingness to end the violence, Ara...
…ld as Jaffa, as well as ugly incidents of mob violence by Israeli Jews against Arabs in some areas. President Clinton tried his best to help us halt the violence on the West Bank and in Gaza. I doubted the Americans would succeed, but was f...
ay prayers, in protest over Sharon’s visit. Danny called Dennis Ross. Madeleine Albright called Arafat, to urge him to ensure this didn’t happen. But as Dennis would remark later, “Arafat didn’t lift finger to stop it.” The trouble began th...
e I’d have to form a “unity” coalition with Arik and the Likud. Still, I told President Clinton I doubted the ticking clock would make a difference to the Palestinian leader. If it didn’t, I believed at some point all our talk about an “end...
