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…iorities of admin. Defeat AQ and avoid a "pre mature war w Iran; avoid Iraqi civil war - Iraq is moving troops now to west; manage the hot situations in ME. Froman: "lead fom behind" is not admin policy. Leverage our resources and those of our allies. Hadley: now in era of b...

…ure that mattered most — survival — Israel had won and the Arab attackers had lost. Jordan did end up in control of the West Bank, as well as the eastern half of a divided city of Jerusalem, including the walled Old City and the site of the ancient Jewish temple. The new Israel r...

Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of...

it sat on a hill outside the West Bank town of Hebron. At the heart

since the West Bank was barely a dozen miles away

it would be as if the West Bank and Gaza Strip had been

with the West Bank fence in place and a range of other

not just on the West Bank but into the Negev. Eshkol’s cabinet

just inside Israel’s pre-1967 border with the West Bank

…Bibi in May 2009, and in a speech in Cairo the next month, he called for a total halt to settlement construction on the West Bank. US opposition to settlements wasn’t new. For years, Washington’s position had been that they represented “an obstacle to peace.” The main issue wasn’...

…the leak of the American draft from Shepherdstown: apparently ready to consider giving Arafat the great majority of the West Bank, without the slightest sign Arafat was ready for a full and final peace. But that wasn’t my main concern. It was that anything that we put on the tabl...

…try on the other side of the Green Line). The engineer said that Rawabi had already created 3,000 construction jobs for West Bank Palestinians. The city is Palestinian-designed and Palestinian-built - - making the surfeit of Qatari flags at the construction site somewhat puzzling...

…the leak of the American draft from Shepherdstown: apparently ready to consider giving Arafat the great majority of the West Bank, without the slightest sign Arafat was ready for a full and final peace. But that wasn’t my main concern. It was that anything that we put on the tabl...

… beyond his obvious determination to get back the Golan. Nor had Arafat’s, beyond his focus on the detail and extent of West Bank redeployments. President Clinton did not object to an early effort to reopen our efforts with the Syrians. But he was worried about the effects of ig...

…n the basis of Sadat’s Palestinian-rights framework, they would have ended up with a mere 5,000 Israeli settlers on the West Bank instead of nearly 200,000. What most astonished Clinton was that Arafat was saying no even to using the package as a basis for negotiations. Still, Ar...