/ BARAK / 83 I packed my bags. I told Danny Yatom to inform the Americans we were leaving and to get our plane ready to take us back to Israel. I let the others in our team know that we were going. A number of them, and several of the Americans as well, urged me to reconsider. B...
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/ BARAK / 69 municipal functions and daily life would be divided between Israel and the Palestinians under a peace agreement. When I convened our negotiators in my cabin to take stock of the logjam, I was getting more and more skeptical of finding a way to get to actual negotia...
/ BARAK / 62 I was confident of finally answering that question at the summit. Camp David was different from Shepherdstown. No reporters would be there. Mobile phones were banned. Each delegation had one landline. We’d also be operating under a time constraint. President Clinton...
/ BARAK / 74 government that the area around the temple’s surviving Western Wall, left uncared for under the Jordanians, was cleared and a stone plaza put in place for worshipers —at the expense of parts of the old Moroccan Quarter. It was under Labor, too, that Israel unilatera...
/ BARAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more junior aide who served the tea and sweets. At least this time, Arafat didn’t take notes as we spoke. The mood was friendly. We talked about a whole range of issues. With ony one exception: what was reall...
Pressed on whether he thinks the Australian Labor Party is in permanent decline, Keating defends Labor, insists it doesn't have to decline but highlights the problem. “Labor must recognise what it has created,” he says, invoking the Hawke-Keating era. "It has a created a new soci...
/ BARAK / 41 control of something like 40 percent of the West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied....
/ BARAK / 15 By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises about quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, abo...
/ BARAK /5 attempt to help put us on the political offensive, after I was asked to record on of Labor’s TV campaign messages. I knew what I wanted to say. I’d talked it over with the small group of campaign experts Peres had asked me to assemble alongside Ramon’s main team. Rath...
/ BARAK / 32 At the start of my brief remarks at the hotel podium before going to Rabin Square, I had to call for quiet when I mentioned the phone call from Bibi. “No,” I said, raising my voice to be heard above the boos, “we will not boo an incumbent Prime Minister of Israel......
/ BARAK / 20 before me, provoked more left-wing parties like Meretz to suggest that if I really wanted peace, I’d be ready to give away more, and more quickly. My position wasn’t helped by the way I had come over in the media during my first months as Labor leader. A number of...
… supporters, the Netanyahu campaign suddenly flooded Israel with blue-and-white banners under the slogan: Bibi, Tov la Yehudim. “Bibi is good for the Jews.” Would it swing tens of thousands of votes among the Orthodox voters who were the main target? It was impossible to say. But...
/ BARAK / 26 that he and others were convinced Bibi couldn’t win. A couple of weeks later, Yitzhik Mordechai seemed on the verge of becoming the latest of Bibi’s ministers to resign. He was openly flirting with the idea of joining a new centrist party that had been formed by Lik...
/ BARAK / 67 simply to withdraw the paper. Clinton’s answer encouraged, and surprised, me. “We agree,” he said. “The paper no longer exists.” It soon turned out the Palestinians were unhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistenc...
/ BARAK / 73 explicit. I told President Clinton I could speak only for how I would respond if a state was indeed declared without a peace deal. “We will extend Israeli sovereignty over the major settlement blocs. We will establish a security zone in the Jordan valley, and let th...