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…omentous ceremony on the White House lawn in September 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, the PLO chairman, shaking hands to seal the deal in front of a beaming president Bill Clinton. And sitting anonymously among the thousands of global di...

…the effect of persuading Washington to send Philip Habib back into the diplomatic fray. With no early sign, however, of Arafat agreeing to leave, Arik now steadily tightened what amounted to a siege on west Beirut. For seven weeks in July and August, our forces pounded the PLO-co...

…gage directly in discussion or debate, tended to wrap his remarks in parables. Without stretching the parallel too far, Arafat was like that. While I tried to engage him on how each of us might help cement the Oslo process, and ensure that the interim agreement indeed led to a fu...

…ic visits to make sure the true story of what had happened at the summit was understood. As a result, the globetrotting Arafat received an almost unanimous rebuff for the idea of a unilateral declaration of stateheood. He was told that if he really wanted a state, he should retur...

…est Bank, but none of the major Arab towns or cities. Though deliberately stopping well short of share of the West Bank Arafat could have secured through a negotiated peace, it would remove Israeli troops and settlers from most of the territory. It would give the Palestinians amp...

… 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 until and unless that happene...

…his was a deliberate campaign, waged with guns and grenades, by Hamas and Islamic Jihad, the Fatah offshoot Tanzim, and Arafat’s own police force. The media had changed, too, in the 13 years since the first intifada, with the rise of twenty-four-seven news broadcasters, includin...

Tunisia. Arafat himself left on August 30. Still, as the evacuation proceeded, another one of Arik’s central aims in Big Pines was also achieved. On August 23, the Lebanese parliament elected Bashir Gemayel as the country’s new president. During the several weeks that followed,...

there was an exchange of “letters of recognition” between Arafat

there was equally little sign of diplomatic engagement by Arafat.

only to be told Arafat was “not a target

which the President was telling Arafat he would try to

open question involved Arafat and the Palestinians.

had approached Dennis Ross with a new proposal: that we ask Arafat to

Arafat’s team now set about happily asking questions and