Word: erakat
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Most of the sessions took place in a suite at Jerusalem's King David Hotel. According to details provided by Erakat and his partner in the talks, security chief Dahlan, Israel agreed to withdraw from as much as 95% of the West Bank, compared with 89% at Camp David. The Israeli side dealt in terms of recognizing Palestinian sovereignty over East Jerusalem and most of the Old City. The Palestinians agreed to cede 3% of the West Bank so large Jewish settlements could be incorporated into Israel. The Palestinians approved an Israeli demand for U.S. and other forces...
...days before the intifadeh, he warned Barak personally that he would not be able to prevent the mayhem if Sharon went ahead with his visit to the Haram. "Please stop Sharon," Arafat pleaded during a dinner, according to an aide who was present. He instructed his chief negotiator, Saeb Erakat, to bring it up with Israeli negotiators and U.S. mediator Dennis Ross the next day. Says Erakat: "I told Dennis, 'This is our worst nightmare, for you, for us and for Barak. Do something about it.' He said, 'I'll see what...
Clinton exploded, according to the Palestinian notes. "You are denying your people a Palestinian state," Clinton warned. "Barak came a long way. You did not." When Arafat got back to his cabin at 2 a.m., Erakat began reading out the minutes of the tense exchange and then burst into tears. The other Palestinians, some of them also weeping, got up and embraced Arafat...
...Today Erakat, 45, a political-science professor in owlish glasses and neatly pressed business suit, seems like the saddest man in the Palestinian territories. As Sharon takes over, Erakat is sitting behind his desk in Jericho, trying to make a joke about becoming unemployed. He reveals that following the Camp David impasse, Arafat and Barak were still conducting indirect but intensive secret negotiations aimed at achieving the comprehensive deal that eluded them in Maryland. He says a total of 53 working sessions, held as Barak was publicly refusing to talk until the violence ended, moved the two sides considerably closer...
...talks were interrupted by the concluding days of Barak's campaign, but Erakat says his Israeli counterpart, Gilead Sher, who had teamed up with Israeli Foreign Minister Shlomo Ben Ami, agreed they could be successfully concluded by April 30 if Barak remained in office. Israeli sources confirm the talks took place and say that had Barak been re-elected, they might have been able to conclude a deal in two months. Assuming, they add, the Palestinians really wanted a deal...