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Can Peres the dreamer be vindicated? With the collapse of the Soviet Union, much of the world has rushed to embrace the Western model of modernity: open, free, stable, boring. It is not impossible that the Palestinians may be joining the rush. In dispersion and under occupation, they have undergone...
Nearly two years after the start of official peace talks, first in Madrid and later in Washington, deadlocked negotiations lent special urgency to the back-channel talks. Immediately after meeting Kriah, Hirschfeld called a high- ranking friend, Yossi Beilin, Deputy Foreign Minister and an aggressive dove. Beilin was interested but...
The Israelis made it clear that they did not officially represent their government but were simply "exploring issues." Still, they kept in constant contact with Beilin -- and through him Foreign Minister Peres, who touched base with Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. At first, a crucial question for the Israelis was whether...
Rabin, who was also entertaining feelers from the Palestinians by way of Egypt, remained cautious about the talks. But by March, Rabin authorized Peres to keep close but still unofficial tabs on what was being called the "Oslo Channel." By then, the Knesset had repealed the law prohibiting Israelis from...
After countless revisions that kept the negotiators haggling for uninterrupted stretches of 24 and even 36 hours (neighbors who wondered at the late-burning lights were told that two professors were working on a book), the document was finally ready. Says Pundak: "We drafted, drafted and redrafted. But even at...