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an organization based in Jerusalem which analyzes reports made by other NGOs

roadblocks to his academic advancement in Jerusalem.

Safdie established a Jerusalem branch office

/ BARAK / 98 in legal and diplomatic terms, null and void. The package Arafat had ultimately rejected had not even been presented by me. It was an American proposal. Besides, it was obvious no serious negotiations were going to happen anyway for the foreseeable future. Arik, how...

/ BARAK / 81 with Arafat still mute and unresponsive. That was the only way we could know with certainty whether peace was possible. If it wasn’t, it would also demonstrate powerfully to the Americans that we were not the party who had prevented an agreement. The President came...

…as a matter of principle. I simply felt the time for such a meeting, if it came, would be at the moment that we saw at least some signal of a readiness on his part to negotiate seriously. Still, given the strength of feeling among some of my own negotiators, I felt a responsibil...

…RAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more junior aide who served the tea and sweets. At least this time, Arafat didn’t take notes as we spoke. The mood was friendly. We talked about a whole range of issues. With ony one exception: what was really ha...

/ BARAK / 14 five-year interim period had yet to begin. In one respect, I had some sympathy for Bibi’s predicament. The reason I'd tried to get Yitzhak to alter the terms of Oslo II was that it required us to hand back control before we knew what a “permanent- status” peace deal...

…as a matter of principle. I simply felt the time for such a meeting, if it came, would be at the moment that we saw at least some signal of a readiness on his part to negotiate seriously. Still, given the strength of feeling among some of my own negotiators, I felt a responsibil...

…fat was insisting that could come only after the terms of whatever we agreed were fully implemented. Still, it was at least a step forward. Clinton seemed genuinely encouraged, and I didn’t want to risk closing off this first chink of light. I suggested, for instance, that we co...

…RAK / 68 Palestinian architect of Oslo, was with him, along with a more junior aide who served the tea and sweets. At least this time, Arafat didn’t take notes as we spoke. The mood was friendly. We talked about a whole range of issues. With ony one exception: what was really ha...

his twentieth 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 o...

tension around us and the sense that something momentous was about to happen as the prospect of a state got closer. The memories remain with me to this day, like a series of snapshots. It was on a spring morning in 1947 that I got my first real sense that the Jewish state was so...

OUP CORRECTED PROOF - FINAL, 10/9/2014, SPi xxxii The Crooked Course Territories and Personal Representative to the PLO and the Palestinian Authority at our new headquarters in Gaza city. The PLO had regained its uncontested leadership, and the Palestinian Authority received a...

…fat was insisting that could come only after the terms of whatever we agreed were fully implemented. Still, it was at least a step forward. Clinton seemed genuinely encouraged, and I didn’t want to risk closing off this first chink of light. I suggested, for instance, that we co...