- Tell us from Camp David in 2000, the meeting between Yasser Arafat, Bill Clinton and you?
- We had an answer to all problems – such as borders, security, refugees, Jerusalem. And we did not ask Arafat for a "take it or leave it". In a way, we gave him 92 percent of what he asked for, and we told him we were not asking him to accept this, just seeing this whole thing as a basis for negotiations with me and Clinton.
- When he refused this, and deliberately started terrorist acts, we learned something. Arafat was not ripe for peace at the time.
- One of the proposals was to connect the West Bank and Gaza?
- Yes, we saw that they needed an interconnection, so we planned an overhanging highway, about 48 kilometers, to the nearest point on the West Bank. This should not have any Israeli military border post or be guarded by Israeli police.
- All three of you were in Oslo in 1999, did you talk to Arafat then?
- Yes, in Oslo I took Arafat to the side then Clinton and we were there – 9 months before Camp David. I said to Arafat: This will be like parachuting at the same time, where you control. . .
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