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Former Israeli Prime Minister Shimon Peres calls Bill Clinton to lobby for Rich's pardon. During a conversation with Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, already lobbying for the pardon of convicted Israeli spy Jonathan Pollard, pushes for Rich's pardon, according to a Quinn e-mail...
Clinton speaks by phone with Barak, who makes a final plea for Rich...
White House counsel Nolan calls Holder to ask for his opinion. Holder, aware that Barak is lobbying hard, says if there's a foreign policy benefit he's "neutral, leaning toward favorable." Quinn later testifies that Nolan told him in the days after the pardon that "if Mr. Holder hadn't participated in the process...this pardon wouldn't have happened...
...seems more like a wake. His archenemy, Ariel Sharon, hasn't claimed victory yet, but with the earliest projections, Arafat has seen enough. He begins spooning up his daily bowl of vegetable soup, listening blankly as his companions talk approvingly of how Israeli Arab voters have deserted incumbent Ehud Barak...
Only yesterday a Palestinian dream seemed within reach. Trying to finalize the Oslo peace accords signed by the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin in 1993, Barak had agreed to a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza Strip. He threw in some sovereignty over Jerusalem. But Arafat bargained for more and didn't get it, then gambled on the new intifadeh, demolishing Barak's re-election hopes. So Arafat must now face Sharon, who calls him a liar and refuses to shake his hand. The dread is, it could be Beirut all over again...