Epstein Secrets

y Palestinian who really counted in those days -- Yasir Arafat. Erekat was a unique figure -- neither a fighter

ment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, i

y Palestinian who really counted in those days -- Yasir Arafat. Erekat was a unique figure -- neither a fighter

ment, the connection between [then Prime Minister Yitzhak] Rabin and President Arafat made everyone around them, i

ordanian delegation. UN General Assembly Resolution 46/86 (Zionism-Racism). Formal dissolution of the USSR. Israeli Labor Party wins the elections. Yitzhak Rabin becomes Prime Minister. Secret Israeli-PLO talks begin in Oslo, and develop into full-scale official negotiations in May that year. Secret signing

ng a lifeline for both the Israeli and Palestinian leaderships. The implementation of the Declaration of Principles started in earnest in 1994, with Yasir Arafat’s spectacular arrival in Gaza and the rapid establishment of the Palestinian Authority. I had the pleasure of welcoming him on behalf of UN Secretary-G