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the next morning in Laurel Lodge, he insisted we had to find some room for flexibility. He said that, of course, Israel would retain sovereignty over the Temple Mount: the site of the Western Wall and, above it, the Al-Aqsa mosque complex. “But without damaging your sovereignty,” he argued, “we have to find a way t
test prospect of movement on Oslo. In October, Bibi did finally try to seize the initiative. He wrapping up the redeployment details in a summit with Arafat and Clinton and Arafat in Wye River. But as soon as he got back home, he started backtracking, rather than risk facing down his right-wing critics in
attraction in getting a deal with Syria first: it would increase our negotiating leverage with the Palestinians. That would certainly not be lost on Yasir Arafat — one reason that I realized the importance of an early meeting with him, to convey my commitment to keeping the Oslo process alive, and, if possible
the next morning in Laurel Lodge, he insisted we had to find some room for flexibility. He said that, of course, Israel would retain sovereignty over the Temple Mount: the site of the Western Wall and, above it, the Al-Aqsa mosque complex. "But without damaging your sovereignty," he argued, "we have to find a way t
test prospect of movement on Oslo. In October, Bibi did finally try to seize the initiative. He wrapping up the redeployment details in a summit with Arafat and Clinton and Arafat in Wye River. But as soon as he got back home, he started backtracking, rather than risk facing down his right-wing critics in
54 Chapter Twenty-One President Clinton and I met the next morning. My aim was to persuade him that the time had come for a make-or-break summit with Yasir Arafat. I suspected it would not be easy to convince him, and it wasn't. But I made the argument that if we were to have any hope of moving Oslo forward, we
g a conflict as a religious war can have dangerous implications. In September 2000, Yasser Arafat said that then-Israeli MP Ariel Sharon's visit to the Temple Mount defiled the Al-Aqsa Mosque. He used this claim as a guise to launch the "Al-Aqsa Intifada" (i.e., second Intifada) terror campaign, which led to EF
never late to respond to the call - The Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, Fatah's military wing" EFTA_R1_00464988 EFTA01978153 / V N "The old man's [Yasser Arafat's] Shabiba [Fatah youth movement] - set the land on fire!" / N, N "Summary of the statement of Fatah's Shabiba [student] movement in the West Ban
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Jerusalem
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George W. Bush
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Fatah
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Barack Obama
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Lebanon
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Benjamin Netanyahu
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Mahmoud Abbas
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Bill Clinton
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Bashar al-Assad
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United States
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West Bank
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Saddam Hussein
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Hosni Mubarak
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Damascus
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Ehud Barak
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Ramallah
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Cairo
LOCATIONthe Gaza Strip
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Tehran
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Middle East
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