Results for “Camp David Accords”

… goodwill on all sides, we can recuperate.” But I told the President that we couldn’t just ignore what had happened at Camp David. Yes, in the event Arafat suddenly had second thoughts about the potentially historic achievement he’d passed up, he would know where to find me. But...

…ly be put off forever. Untangling them was getting harder, not easier. And we realised that only in an environment like Camp David — a “pressure cooker” was how I described it to Clinton, and to US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright — would we ever discover whether a peace dea...

…ad chief — had just been through dozens of hours of intricately detailed talks with each of Arafat’s top negotiators at Camp David, not to mention the dozens of other meetings before we had even got there. Now they had to accept that, even with the lid of the pressure cooker bolt...

…ough Arik had failed, for now, to bring down the government, he was keen to make political capital from the collapse of Camp David. He now declared his intention to pay a visit to the Temple Mount. The Mount - or as it was called in Arabic, Haram al-Sharif — was part of Israel. T...

…ats praying in the holy city, Jews exercising authority or sovereignty, or a Jewish state, was something else entirely. Camp David had made it clear it was something he was not prepared to accept. The question which I now had to confront was what to do next. 373 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT...

…ns were going to happen anyway for the foreseeable future. Arik, however, said he wanted not just a “full divorce” from Camp David. He insisted we formally declare an end to the entire Oslo process. I told him that was a price I was not prepared to pay for his support. Despite t...

…ately, I was wearing sneakers. I told Danny to inform the Americans I was out jogging around the perimeter of the large Camp David estate, and went off to do just that. I told my own delegation I was taking time out to assess where we stood. I did continue meeting with Gili Sher...

…ow wanted Bibi to end. I had no illusions about how hard it would be to get him to agree. With each passing year since Camp David, the pro-settlement right wing in Israel had become more confident and influential. In a way, the settlers and their supporters — passionately devote...

…, that didn’t mean they would simply be forgotten. The result is that we’d actually be in a worse situation than before Camp David. Politically, I’d find myself in much the same position as President Assad, after the leak of the American draft from Shepherdstown: apparently ready...

… on Passover, ends with the Hebrew phrase: Shanah haba b’Yerushalaim. Next year, in Jerusalem. “What we decided here in Camp David,” Dan said, “also affects Jews in New York. In Moscow. In Johannesburg.” He urged us to focus instead on offering Arafat as attractive as possible a...

…ng charges of child pornography, I defended the person charged. In one such case, a medical student who had worked as a camp counselor had taken thousands of photographs of his campers, including several of them “skinny dipping.” The focus of the photographs was not on the genita...

…girl living in the home for emotionally disturbed children located in Warsaw, 1948. The girl grew up in a concentration camp and the past horrors can still be seen on her face. #11 Two Brothers HOUSE OVERSIGHT 020676 What might look like a fun photo at first glance, showing two b...

…inly. But neither by simple, untempered hope. Though the stakes have become much higher since my night flight back from Camp David nearly 15 years ago, our 11 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_027859

…, that didn’t mean they would simply be forgotten. The result is that we’d actually be in a worse situation than before Camp David. Politically, I’d find myself in much the same position as President Assad, after the leak of the American draft from Shepherdstown: apparently ready...

… inherent in his change of circumstances and of adapting to presidential lifestyle, she added, “How often will he go to Camp David?’—the Spartan, woodsy presidential retreat in Catoctin Mountain Park in Maryland—“How ’bout never.”’) At the White House, he retreated to his own be...