/ BARAK / 78 and refining our position on Jerusalem. I think Clinton expected a formal offer from us. Since I’d been guided by his request for a list of questions for Arafat, however, that is what we came to him with. As we’d discussed, I wanted finally to elicit some sign of wh...
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/ BARAK/ 51 couldn’t guarantee anything. In the months ahead I would come to understand what that meant, because it would happen again. I don’t think Arafat himself orchestrated the violence. Maybe he couldn’t have stopped it completely. But I have no doubt — nor did President C...
/ BARAK / 72 this saga.” I told the President that I still believed that we were facing a “moment of truth.” But only if he could “shake” Arafat, and get him to sense the enormity of the stakes — an independent Palestinian state, versus more, and undoubtedly deadlier, violence....
/ BARAK / 24 organize events and contact voters during the campaign. We outfitted our own war room in an open-plan floor of offices on the edge of Tel Aviv. Philip called it “Milbank South.” As organizational head of the campaign, I chose Chagai Shalom. An industrial engineer by...
/ BARAK / 36 compromises that we might have to contemplate during peace negotiations were still anathema to many other Israelis. Syria was always my first negotiating priority, as it had been for Rabin and, for a brief period, Bibi as well. This was not just because the shape o...
/ BARAK / 10 touched as well by the fact that he had decided to “pass the torch” to me, someone more in the mold, and closer to, Rabin. But I remained cautious, too. When I got back home, Nava, knowing where I’d been, was still awake. I told her everything that Shimon had said....
/ BARAK / 16 talks with the Americans on the further West Bank redeployments meandered ahead. We also discussed in detail how a unity government would work. We agreed it would be presented, like the Shamir-Peres partnership in 1984, as a cross- party response to an important cha...
…e: — High This drives me f*ing crazy. Simple question for your boy: Did Donald Trump actively promote the theory that Barak Obama was not born in the US and was therefore not a legitimate President? Answer: Yes. He should not defend that shit. He can defend populist/national...
/ BARAK / 41 control of something like 40 percent of the West Bank. That meant — at least in theory — that Israel could limit phase-three to a mere token pullout, leaving the Palestinians with less than half of the territory. “T don’t know what percentage, exactly,” I replied....
From: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Sent: 9/16/2013 11:15:03 AM To: ehud barak___________________________ Subject: Re: Summers withdraws from Fed race yes the good side is now he is free to have fun and a life. LIsa the wife is very happy as she did not want to live in...
…etanyahu—approached the challenges of peace through a concept of gradualism, postponing the tricky final status issues. Barak, who took office in 1999, was the first Israeli Prime Minister to address the final status head-on with a “totalist” approach (read below). While the Osl...
/ BARAK / 42 negotiations. The first stirrings of discontent had begun even before I went to see Clinton. On the basis of my commitment merely to try for peace, Arik Sharon had presented a no-confidence motion in the Knesset. It was never going to pass. But only days after I’d m...
/ BARAK / 15 By November, even his Foreign Minister, David Levy, was making noises about quitting. He said it would be a waste of time to stay in the cabinet if it was going to bring the peace process to a halt. I warned Bibi, both in the Knesset and in a series of speeches, abo...
/ BARAK /9 seemed to defeat the purpose of going into politics in the first place. Still, I had no appetite for rushing into a challenge to Peres’s leadership, both because it was bound to be difficult for both of us, and frankly because it seemed rash, premature and maybe even...
From: ehud barak' Sent: 9/16/2013 11:12:33 AM To: Jeffrey Epstein [[email protected]] Subject: Fwd: Summers withdraws from Fed race A major blow to a friend. Lest BO takes him to replace JL. Now he'll probably be free in the next few days. EB Sent from my iPad Begin forwa...