Thursday, January 3, 2008

Ungenerous occupier: Israel's Camp David exposed

The joke's on who? US President George W. Bush congratulates President Mahmoud Abbas, left, of the Palestinian Authority, and Prime Minister Ehud Olmert of Israel during the Annapolis Conference, 27 November 2007. (Chris Greenberg/White House photo)

"After seven years of rumors and self-serving memoirs, the Israeli media has finally published extracts from an official source about the Camp David negotiations in summer 2000. For the first time it is possible to gauge with some certainty the extent of former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak's "generous offer" to the Palestinians and Yasser Arafat's reasons for rejecting it."

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