Results for “Life Science Summit”

/ 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 / 82 issues raised by our proposals and showing a willingness to find common ground would we have any hope of success. No recess, Clinton said. He needed a straight answer. Again, not full acceptance necessarily, but agreement to treat the proposals as a basis for negoti...

he co-chaired a “Summit of Peacemakers” in Sharm al-

we had to accept that Jerusalem would be key. And if the summit

the 12th summit of the Organization of Islamic

I was again asking President Clinton for a summit

first at Mar-a-Lago and then at the Beijing summit

I flew to Portugal — the site of a US-European summit — to see President

the reaction in Israel to the summit and what came after it.

at least until the summit was over. In a nationally televised

way of moving the summit along in Clinton’s absence. If Arafat had

it is true the summit had failed. But when I’d urged

/ BARAK/ 71 they were willing to consider full Palestinian sovereignty over two Arab neighborhoods in East Jerusalem, and even some form of Palestinian authority and control in the Christian and Muslim quarters inside the walls of the Old City. They had dropped our insistence on...

/ BARAK / 85 Once it was clear to the Americans there would be no talks until the President returned, however, Madeline began urging me to go see Arafat personally. The two members of our team who were the least pessimistic about Camp David’s outcome, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yossi Gi...

/ BARAK / 2 cabinet meeting the day before, by reviving an idea I’d supported under Rabin: to build a security fence all along the edge of the West Bank, with a series of controlled crossing points for people and goods. Yitzhak had said no at the time, because he was worried it...