Epstein Secrets

e as part of a final status agreement. Jones, like Allen, assembled a US military team, and a draft report was duly presented to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who put it in drawer where it promptly disappeared. As the Annapolis effort progressed, Jones' mission lost its initial focus. Instead of planning

duly presented to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, who put it in drawer where it promptly disappea

for security in the context of peace, its mandate was narrowed to improving the security environment on the ground in and around the market town of Jenin — from an Israeli perspective a far more manageable and acceptable objective. Allen's effort could suffer the fate of the Jones mission, becoming y

to seek relief from these restrictions, no matter how valid the need. During the Bush administration, "relief' would come from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when Dayton could make the case that amid the intensely polarized atmosphere of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, as well as that which existed be

' would come from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice when Dayton could make the case that amid the in

nd. This burgeoning trust paid off in initial Palestinian security campaigns to get militias off the streets in the West Bank cities of Nablus and Jenin. These nascent campaigns were marked examples of bold Palestinian security initiatives and the IDF's newfound willingness to support the test-case

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te in the process continued until Ehud Olmert’s election as Prime Minister in 2006. Through intense negotiations facilitated by US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and her team, the parties came close to striking a deal which would have pushed the peace process forward. However, as the end game of this phase of

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