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at his main chance at success now is to organize international consensus around a plan that he can call his own. The Oslo Agreements negotiator Dr. Ron Pundak (who, sadly, passed away Friday) suggested to me that the substance of such a plan would be something equivalent to U.N. Resolution 242 in the nine
talks in Geneva aimed at resolving the £yrian civil war. This came only months after the threat of US military force against Damascus convinced the Assad regime to abandon its chemical weapons programme. In both the Far East and Europe, the Obama administration is pushing ambitious trade initiatives
academics with personal ties to prominent Palestinians: 254 HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_011725 Yair Hirschfeld, and the historian and former Haaretz journalist Ron Pundak. Three PLO officials were there, led by Arafat’s closest economic aide, Abu Ala’a. Though both of the Israelis were friends of Yossi Beilin, a protég
three hours from the cease-fire. We did advance nearer to the Beirut-Damascus road. An hour before noon, our dedicated anti-tank unit destroyed 20 of Assad’s top-tier tanks, Soviet-made T-72s. Under different circumstances, those successes might have been a cause for consolation. Yet it was hard to dwell
academics with personal ties to prominent Palestinians: 254 HOUSE _OVERSIGHT_028102 Yair Hirschfeld, and the historian and former Haaretz journalist Ron Pundak. Three PLO officials were there, led by Arafat's closest economic aide, Abu Ala'a. Though both of the Israelis were friends of Yossi Beilin, a protég
three hours from the cease-fire. We did advance nearer to the Beirut-Damascus road. An hour before noon, our dedicated anti-tank unit destroyed 20 of Assad's top-tier tanks, Soviet-made T-72s. Under different circumstances, those successes might have been a cause for consolation. Yet it was hard to dwell
cent of the Golan Heights, it still fell short of Assad’s demand for a return to the 4 June 1967 lines, a
Resolu- tions 425 and 426. 18 June 2000 The UN Security Council confirms Israel’s withdrawal from Lebanon in a Presidential Statement. 10 July 2000 Bashar al-Assad is elected President of Syria in a nationwide referendum. 11-25 July 2000 Camp David II negotiations between Ehud Barak and Yasir Arafat. 25 July 2
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023156 →d of talks unless the Israelis “upgraded” their delegation to high-level officials. Up to this point, the Israelis were represented by two academics (Ron Pundak and Yair Hirschfeld) who did not hold any formal position in the HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023162 --- PAGE BREAK --- OUP CORRECTED PROOE - FINAL, 10/9/2014,
Page: HOUSE_OVERSIGHT_023163 →Entities connected to both Ron Pundak and Bashar al-Assad

Barack Obama
PERSON
George W. Bush
PERSON
United States
LOCATION
Lebanon
LOCATION
Benjamin Netanyahu
PERSON
Tehran
LOCATION
Bill Clinton
PERSON
Damascus
LOCATION
Hosni Mubarak
PERSON
Terje Rod-Larsen
PERSON
Tunisia
LOCATION
Saddam Hussein
PERSON
Cairo
LOCATION
Jerusalem
LOCATION
Vladimir Putin
PERSON
Hillary Clinton
PERSON
Fatah
ORGANIZATION
Mahmoud Abbas
PERSON
Michael Cohen
PERSON
West Bank
LOCATION