…I’d long been advocating. He had endorsed the Bush Administration’s “road map” for resuming the peace process. Yet with Yasir Arafat ageing, ailing and even less inclined to consider the difficult decisions he had shirked at Camp David, Arik went one, dramatic step further. He ra...
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…me Minister half-a-century later, during my stubborn yet ultimately fruitless drive to secure a final peace treaty with Yasir Arafat, there were media suggestions that my childhood years gave me a personal understanding of the pasts of both our peoples, Jews and Arabs, in the lan...
/ BARAK / 88 Chapter Twenty-Three It didn’t fully hit me how draining our efforts had been until the morning that the summit collapsed, when President Clinton called me to come talk to him in the living room at Laurel Lodge. When I arrived, Madeleine was already there, sitting...
/ BARAK / 94 end of the day, dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured. Five Palestinians lay dead. Though the media almost instantly labelled it a new “intifada”, this one was very different. It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone- throwing youths con...
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
/ BARAK / 66 Bet technician. I assumed that, one way or another, the Americans could listen in, but was fairly confident we were beyond the electronic earshot of the Palestinians. I kept myself fully informed of, but at a distance from, the specific work of our five negotiating...
/ BARAK / 94 end of the day, dozens of Israelis and Palestinians were injured. Five Palestinians lay dead. Though the media almost instantly labelled it a new “intifada”, this one was very different. It was not a burst of anger, however misdirected, by stone- throwing youths con...
/ BARAK / 75 stake. I didn’t know whether peace was within reach. I was still deeply skeptical. But if it was, we had to accept that Jerusalem would be key. And if the summit failed, for whatever reason, what inevitably awaited us was “confrontation.” Israel Hasson, the Shin Be...