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...Suffice to say that while the Israeli government of Ehud Barak offered less, even Barak's offer was vehemently rejected by Ariel Sharon. So, Abbas is keen to resume negotiations with Israel on the basis of President Bush's "roadmap," which leads inexorably to the completion of the Oslo peace process. Sharon prides himself on having buried Oslo...
...world and much of the international community insists that the resolution implies a full withdrawal to the 1967 borders, noting that the preamble emphasizes "the inadmissibility of the acquisition of territory by war." While the meaning of the resolution may be disputed, the negotiations between former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and the Palestinian Authority in 2000 following the Camp David breakdown appear to have been guided by the 1967 borders as the starting point, with modifications to be negotiated in a quid...
...fantasy projected onto Abbas goes further than simply imagining he'll accept something less than what was offered at Taba, where Ehud Barak improved on his "last-best" offer made at Camp David five months earlier. The fantasy also involves the presumptive Palestinian president ruthlessly cracking down on Hamas, Islamic Jihad and all other groups who have taken up arms against Israel, making them the target of a "war on terror" akin to America's own. This is more than a little farfetched - indeed, it's an idea cultivated in no small part by Arafat himself, in the days when...
...outcome unthinkable even in his own party until it became inevitable following the onset of the September 2000 intifada - by leading an aggressive campaign against the Oslo process. Yasser Arafat was widely pilloried in the U.S. for rejecting what was offered at Camp David by then Prime Minister Ehud Barak. It is worth noting, however, that Sharon was, if anything, far more vehement in his rejection of the same deal...
...with which Israeli leaders he met, but they included Sharon, Foreign Minister Silvan Shalom and Finance Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, according to an individual in Israel with knowledge of the details of Summers’ visit. Summers also met with two other former Israeli prime ministers, Shimon Peres and Ehud Barak, the source said...