Night Flight They say that you can read a person’s feelings on his face. But if so, either I’m a very good actor – the opposite of what anyone who has worked closely with me would tell you – or the journalists clustered in front of me weren’t very good face-readers. They said th...
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… groups tried to take the initiative. One example of several is the Geneva Accords of December 2003 led by PLO official Yasser Abed Rabbo and former Israeli Minister Yossi Beilin. The stalemate in the process continued until Ehud Olmert’s election as Prime Minister in 2006. Throu...
/ BARAK / 80 American proposal. I suggested the President could tell Arafat that he’d try to get me to agree to it, providing Arafat first showed a readiness to move. The American questions did go further than ours. They asked Arafat whether he would negotiate on the basis of g...
…cenes negotiations that 1993, with Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli resulted in the historic Oslo Accords prime minister, and Yasser Arafat, in 1993, won a Tony for Best Play on the PLO chairman, shaking hands Broadway this year, and has already to seal the deal in front of a beaming v...
/ BARAK / 82 issues raised by our proposals and showing a willingness to find common ground would we have any hope of success. No recess, Clinton said. He needed a straight answer. Again, not full acceptance necessarily, but agreement to treat the proposals as a basis for negoti...
/ BARAK / 79 Syrians. Then to Geneva to see Assad, “where I felt like a wooden Indian, doing your bidding. I will not let it happen here. I will simply not do it.” I tried to keep my voice steady when I replied. I explained that the issues we were addressing went to the heart o...
/ BARAK / 58 previous Israeli leader in trying to get that peace. I knew that he would press me to tell him how far that actually was. He didn’t ask directly. But each of his ostensibly theoretical questions was aimed at establishing whether I could give him enough for a summit...
/ BARAK / 85 Once it was clear to the Americans there would be no talks until the President returned, however, Madeline began urging me to go see Arafat personally. The two members of our team who were the least pessimistic about Camp David’s outcome, Shlomo Ben-Ami and Yossi Gi...
/ 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...
Jordan River from the West Bank, from which a fledgling group called Fatah, under the command of Arafat, had been staging a series of raids. In one of their most recent attacks, they’d planted land mines, one of which destroyed an Israeli schoolbus, killing the driver and one of...
/ BARAK / 67 simply to withdraw the paper. Clinton’s answer encouraged, and surprised, me. “We agree,” he said. “The paper no longer exists.” It soon turned out the Palestinians were unhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistenc...
/ BARAK / 40 talks. I did realize that, “null and void” or not, our proposals or suggestions would not simply disappear from memory. But I felt the point of principle was essential if Israel was going to be able to consider the kind of far-reaching concessions which final peace...
/ BARAK / 67 simply to withdraw the paper. Clinton’s answer encouraged, and surprised, me. “We agree,” he said. “The paper no longer exists.” It soon turned out the Palestinians were unhappy with it too, but for another reason. On the lookout for validation of Arafat’s insistenc...
/ 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 / 64 Chapter Twenty-Two If I believed in omens, I might have turned back as soon as we got to the summit. We reached Camp David a little before ten at night on July 10, after helicoptering from Andrews Air Force base near Washington. When we arrived, it was pouring with...