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… that real talks began. The Americans arranged for negotiating teams from both sides on borders, the refugee issue, and Jerusalem to meet with President Clinton. The Palestinians participated, but showed no sign at all of a readiness to compromise. Borders should have been the mo...

…d the smaller, even more extreme parties from turning against him. In late September 1996, Bibi and the Likud mayor of Jerusalem, Ehud Olmert, decided to go ahead with the festive opening of an archeological tunnel that provided access to a larger portion of the Western Wall of...

…ngerprints all over it. That wasn’t true. The one change we’d insisted on was because it misrepresented our position on Jerusalem. Still, since Dennis had added the word “expanded” to the Jerusalem section in longhand, the Palestinians were convinced of Israel co-authorship. In...

…ther the President much less than they did me. Everything would be contingent on an unspecified, “acceptable outcome on Jerusalem.” And despite Clinton’s emphasis that any meaningful agreement had to include a formal declaration that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “over,” A...

… that real talks began. The Americans arranged for negotiating teams from both sides on borders, the refugee issue, and Jerusalem to meet with President Clinton. The Palestinians participated, but showed no sign at all of a readiness to compromise. Borders should have been the mo...

… birthday. Jacob did still insist on helping financially, which allowed my father to enroll at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He did well in his studies — literature, history and philosophy — but abandoned them after two years. His explanation for not staying on, when I ask...

…r strip along the Mediterranean, broadening slightly into the Galilee in the north and the arid coastline in the south. Jerusalem, the site of the ancient Jewish temple, was not part of it. It was to be placed under international rule. By no means all Zionist leaders were happy w...

… for progress to be made and trust to develop on less contentious issues before tackling more controversial topics like Jerusalem, borders, security arrangements, and refugees, which could threaten to derail any talks. One of the principal advantages of the step-by-step or gradu...

…HOUSE OVERSIGHT 029694 the Palestinians, including Israel's continued settlement construction in the West Bank and East Jerusalem. Israel's military occupied those territories, along with Gaza, in the 1967 Arab-Israeli war. Palestinians view them as the key territorial elements o...

…ther the President much less than they did me. Everything would be contingent on an unspecified, “acceptable outcome on Jerusalem.” And despite Clinton’s emphasis that any meaningful agreement had to include a formal declaration that the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was “over,” A...

…r made me another offer, during my second year in law school, which I also could not accept. He had been hired to go to Jerusalem to broadcast the trial of Adolf Eichmann, a job for which he was eminently suited, having been the Chief Prosecutor of Nazi war criminals at Nuremberg...

I’d felt blindsided by the inclusion of a proposal on Jerusalem that

I couldn’t move on Jerusalem right before we recessed. It would mean

to discuss both the questions and the Jerusalem package.

someone from Tel Aviv or Jerusalem is telling them what to do.