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september 24th on t w. it's hard to find an opening to my story. the tale of a small footnote in the history of our region. i can only write my own private memories of these 3 years of hope and anguish. is this a tale of triumph. or defeat. the

ending to our story has not yet been written. the pristina ducks began 40 days after their mexico in hamburg luckily the for a few days before morning was a full hour and when they're out and you see blood on the streets and people are

saying this is the peace that you promised us and you could not say don't forget it was only at the o p. wasn't there a ceremony. in the rabin and clint wasn't did. one. in march of 94 we headed back to the negotiating table since the wave of suicide bombings is really close to border to 2 and a half 1000000 palestinians poverty was rising throughout the occupied territories and living conditions declined our people were losing faith in the peace process but i knew we must not give up. these will be in the studio services serious or not he's asking about the sixers. in the future of slieve fact for the common interest rates or whatever it was yes going to sort of. go away now the trick of negotiating

with the palestinians is not to address the main aspects of the prominent alleged. if we try to deal with a prominent arrangement but now the whole thing will fall upon your going to have a career not going to jump to 30. percent off without me despite the blood and the violence the process had a force of its own and in may $94.00 when we set out to sign the gaza jericho agreement granting the palestinian self rule in gaza that is something he's. told the stage was finally set to egypt president mubarak provided a suitably dramatic setting for the ceremony in cairo. the morning of the signing of the gaza jericho agreement faisal and i were being interviewed in jerusalem while watching a live broadcast of the ceremony. on my way to the interview i was held up by israeli soldiers at the checkpoints someone said to me this is your idea of peace

tell the old man not to sign tell him to come wait at the checkpoint and sign it here along with the rest of us. i stared at the screen and wondered is this a celebration of the birth of the peace process or its burial. both sides appear to have sorted out differences over the gaza strip and jericho but within minutes it was clear that the deal like the stage positions was not going to plan the. final was there to save yourself really. i was sitting there in a sea of fog signing the documents signing the documents signing a document the all the documents and then the guy who took the system brought the maps look the band. didn't sign close the can went back to spare and have been was walking through the saying. why walk up the stair.

and i stand next to a beam and as he begins to sign i open it and then i whisper in his ear without show trying not to show any excitement op because everything was recalled and and filmed and i told him i don't. know signing. so he says so what does it mean. i responded it means that there is no agreement. israel's prime minister rabin examined the documents cold of a foreign minister shimon peres and also refused to sign one. for a while it seemed as if the entire ceremony was about to collapse. because

we had not been a part of that channel we didn't fully appreciate what the gaps were between the 2 sides israel saw this as a devolution of power. as a policy is prove themselves house and saw that says we have to show this is a new day and there's a new day we have to have all the trappings of statehood even if we don't have a formal yet so immediately they want to you know they didn't want controls over across he wants they want to they want to be they say you know the israelis are out of our lives. would have been thought of but you know they both haitians is says that. this is normal or they would be i was in the road with their homes and. they want to see yes. so i would go to them and so it was again and said no they would quote and so it's. probably true i was on the stage with you but. this son of a bitch. after

a brief interval the p.l.o. leader was assured that the saudis of the jericho region was still under negotiation he signed the document and did a few comments. finally with the briefest of and shakes a deal was done at the very last minute. on july 1st 1904 yasser arafat returned to his home and reclaimed his position as the palestinian leader. it was an ambivalent return he came back and had to govern palestine which was divided and driven apart or perhaps israel brought him back in order to control him. what was the price we had to pay for his return home

was this $1.00 of those minefields or was it the 1st step toward peace and the liberation of palestine. as we made our way to promise time my heart pounded and i was choked with the emotion of the moment. i wept tears i never went before kissing and hugging all my relatives and friends. the last time i met my father in jordan i hinted that i might be coming home so he cried and raised his hands swearing he would prepare a feast on my return. my sadness was that my father had passed away just 4 months earlier after waiting for

my return for so many years. so when i called yuri i said i'm finally back in march childhood home. he greeted me with the arab word of welcome and told me he was really pleased to hear my force we had become neighbors and asked. one week after i returned to our bodies' we met once again in taba this time in order to negotiate the 2nd stage of the all slow process israel's withdrawal from the west bank. by spread out the map we had kept secret until then. the oslo accord stated israel will withdraw from most of the west bank within a year and the palestinians were expecting to receive control over the land

immediately. but israel demanded a gradual withdrawal and offered the palestinians full control of only 2 percent of the land. the remaining 98 percent would be controlled by the israeli army. arafat stared at the map silently and then announced that it was an unbearable humiliation these are prison camps he yelled you want to destroy me with those words arafat left the room. what you were suggesting deviates from the signed agreement i shouted you keep 98 percent of the land we won't accept that you can enforce this approach on arafat and push him into a corner. but remember this one sided agreement will not last. i will last it up without saying another word and summoned his driver. we exchanged

a polite and cold handshake and we each went our separate ways. as hours went by we waited nervously in the hotel's lobby some israeli reporters informed us that arafat had issued a statement about the talks collapsing. we were all on edge but refused to cave in . a sound that nonchalant now is the time to decide do they want agreement or not 2 main issues are on the table hebron and withdrawal maps are out of so i believe we'll know in hours or in the days but where the end of the negotiation at this stage of the final decision. later that evening arafat's personal assistant came rushing towards me arafat asked that you come to our room immediately she said he's collapsed. i

went to our laws room and found him lying in bed pale as a ghost trembling nodding in and out of consciousness. hold on my friend i whispered i need you to stay with me. the doctors found collapse to be a result of extreme fatigue caused by the many hours of negotiations but i knew the truth. the map i presented to him had broken his heart. there was something very personal making it wasn't political. festival it wasn't a political ambition it was a hit very human. there's a symbolic. picture where people went to israeli attacks and misty

and put on their dances. that the acts that they stored your lives and your homes their irony of that can do your kids from oppressed to people who went out and gave them flowers and gave them olive branches and felt that this was that this is their and their complex this is that and of the occupation. it was her moment of. a moment of traumas. people's hopes were dashed and then my period i'm so into every i'm. so happy sad and response.

and i want day i'm driving to my office and the guards tell me a bus was blown up as we drove there and the whole square was awash with blood. and i wrote bodies was still lying there body parts people wailing and weeping. irish omphale. has shown us to thousands of people were there and when i walked in they surround murder and see what you've done to us try to see what you've done to us much as it's.

i had the meeting with yere and ron. we all felt that time was running out and that we had to act fast. we agreed on the liberations that would lead to a permanent agreement utilizing the same framework we used in os low. quick discreet talks and no empty slogans. mahmoud abbas and i deliberated over the draft for almost 2 years. behind the scenes without the wreckage of the taba hotel we touched on the most sensitive points of the process read for the very 1st time at least theoretically we had a document in our hands with a comprehensive solution the withdrawal to the 67 borders the establishment of a palestinian state of course keeping the settlement blocks intact and making jerusalem the capital of both nations. my plan was to set up

a meeting with rabin. i told him that i would like to meet with him about the permanent solution and he said it's not possible. so i told him let's do it when i returned from the united states on saturday nov 11th. no one could have guessed under what circumstances that meeting would take place. on september 5th we reassembled in taba i must admit that after our last encounter i wasn't looking forward to another round of this endless boxing match. it was the they asked c.s. meeting i've ever been in my life we just wanted to be anywhere but in that room as i was leaving the room i turned around and the israeli and palestinian delegations are talking to each other and having

a cup of coffee i think it underscores the point that. part of what happens to negotiations is the humanisation of the other side you no longer see just the quote unquote enemy but you see a person and you learn about that person's family and their ups and downs of their happy moments and you get a sense of how committed they are to peace and you never able to translate that to the public. that evening we improvised a friday prayer service we led candles and much to the astonishment of the palestinians singer recited the kiddush prayer. we opened with everybody love saturday night in 3 languages. afterwards abu alaa and myself joked around by imitating the peres and arafat conversations meanwhile we taught the ass for how to sing my you disha mama. it was nice to get around again.

later that night i received a call from jerusalem a bus had exploded in the center of the capital. i. told the government stop the peace talks. we sat and watched the news silently no one said a word no one doubted that our palestinian friends opposed to terror and that it was directed towards them as well. 2 days later called me up from his room and asked me to watch the arab evening news with him. we watched images of a 7 year old boy's funeral a boy who had been killed that day by the israeli army. abu alaa was right when he said that neither side has dominion over suffering.

that night to a law and i reached the final draft of the osce low b. agreement. the muslimism of the oslo b. accords was signed by early severe on the israeli side and as well enough for the palestinians according to the treaty the israeli army will withdraw from 6 name cities in the west bank besides jericho and elections will the palestinian council will take place and much else. instead of this at the say on this is a day of achievement the visits are grubby and this morning he achieved the signing of the oslo b. accord the government debated for 5 hours you know what the minister has described as an historic meeting about an historic treaty. order showed you today with the help of the israeli army we rule over more than 2000000 palestinians. and control their daily lives through the civil administration all should show this is no peaceful solution or we can go on fighting. we can continue

killing and being killed off will go to the regular not so bad we can also try to bring a halt to this endless cycle of bloodshed we can give peace a chance. i don't think all caesar gather to protest the ratification of the oslo the agreement and what the nationalist camp calls the forsaking of security and the abandonment of the homeland i do surely. i asked this huge crowd is that anyone amongst you the police yes i don't find that. there are no you say no but there is someone who doesn't care about your opinion separate that mr rabin added that did. i. i.

made eason jordan with the president of the united states is majesty king hussein of the hashemite kingdom of jordan is excellent seymour aman whose new book current president of the arab republic of egypt it is actually it's a good start for being prime minister of israel chairman arafat. please take a good hard look. there saw you can you see was it. was on faith or bill just too easy a sugar. and to all break being a soldier and surveyed knew what to do. to make peace moment

most of. these where the years of hope when the peace camps felt that they were somehow. vindicated they are bringing to their people the fruits. i don't do my same hotel a spontaneous get together of the oslo veterans among them the original negotiators and. it was a one off you know it's a one day off the one. that i'm yes yes i am optimistic yes i believe that. the process you can bet there will continue despite the cold if you come as we face a substantive. we have both we have a good political push this process for. all and i concur with apple well i'm what i said and we have no ties and there's some good common language around this table if

you can. see also you know the days highlight is the friendly perception of us where personal guards are let down and on the podium gets her phone number to me says out of. this chemistry among the women in the she and you address out of foster the 1st time in a personal to human moment. what the situation spoke. and the story is speech made sure i. are still at the bird we share but know. that you are close to be cheery i could think. if. i was not going to vote if

i was valid and not since. some replies a lot of. a lot of cars are. i was 3. was i think of it sag rabin and the shimon peres the yossi beilin and to their friends i say to you throughout. the day. we will brolly our forces and we will succeed have actually was we will put an end to those threats we will succeed was

because there is nation is much stronger than its government was here was was through. rabin and arafat felt isolated and the hostile environment was the peace camp wasn't going out into the streets to protest was instead they chose to avoid confrontation was the peace opponents hamas on the palestinian side and the greater israel camp on our side was now on to public opinion was the face off wasn't between israel and the palestinians but between those who supported peace and those who objected to it . mr abiola why do you like to make the settlers angry so. much what are they accusing me of now couple forsaking the settlers lifelessly bombs people said that the settlements bolster our security where is their security a bit of all

a problem today is just lighting security for the settlers let me let me go above and you see the settlers as pioneers. no absolutely not what do you see them as. i see them as people who are implementing their political philosophy they believe in the greater israel. isn't it these days. some hill near ramallah bringing 700000 immigrants to israel and absolving building a society and economy of. the tiny settlements surrounded by hundreds of thousands of palestinian. in early october john friedman a friend of peres convinced him to arrange a rally in support of the peace process. peres urged robin to accept the initiative but rabin wondered would be believin leave their homes in those days

rabin was more pessimistic than ever. if too much is heard in the middle east from the few extremists tonight the supporters of peace and a huge rally in tel aviv this is the young israel tired of obvious service tired of chasing palestinian stone throwing children through refugee camps all sides are mobilizing but this is now becoming one of the most contentious moments in israeli history for the past 5 perhaps no surprise is fighting and there is a popular my term for peace. by obama. it was the happiest day of his life. i've known him for 50 years i do never seen him so happy. he has many down there he didn't know if people would show up for

a while how they'd behave. and to his pleasant surprise the crowd was enormous and the enthusiasm was incredible. and the young men and women jumped into the pool in their clothes and crazy and peace and me to a little. mission from i had known him for 15 years and i never saw him seeing a movie that was the 1st time i ever saw him seeing. i have found with the loaves i want and we both sang and neither of us a great sing is hard on afterwards he hugged me like he never hugged me before.

i never saw him so happy as he was that night. going to allow me to say. i'm also have no. idea. i want to thank everyone of you. for coming here to stand up against violence and i feel no peace. thank. god so when the rally was over i started walking down the stairs however my car was parked in front of his car and next to his casket his driver i asked him. he said today he is he was maybe 10 or 12 meters away from me as i got in the com drive and started it and just as we closed the door we heard pre-crime shots stronger shall surely.

return in the family much of the field she makes you call my face we are now seeing an edited footage from the peace rally this is what we know so far in the face 3 shots were fired prime minister rabin the jewish and other who claims to have shot rob. we still don't know the condition of the prime minister and that several should also mention that. i went to the hospital. layer of bean the family and close friends were there. and the hospital directed took me aside and said it's a bad situation almost hopeless. a few minutes later he came to tell me it was over she was us.

'd i. lay and i went into the room where he lay on a gurney covered with a sheet. says we saw his face restful peaceful when there was even a hint of us not cast x. mile on his lips on or a smile of acceptance. but. i kissed his forehead and left the room sharp about my meds. i

am. you know these people who are fighting each other they don't go on as each other they kill each other and so on was in the play but then later i saw robin's meeting with after i saw meeting after meeting after meeting after meeting i was there every single meeting and i saw how the relationships develop. after there wouldn't rabin was assassinated out of 5 told me where it's estimated the peace process and i disagreed with him. on that i was not about her and the vigilance about institutions it's about. have a replacement and so on and me the bribe is for the has happened to me very significant response.

paris was. was not himself was not himself. he was very said deeply said. he was already the prime minister and day on saturday i came to his home with all the maps in order material. and i said to him. this is the women that i have it with the ones. i think that we can go for it you have the exam board though you have the solution for jerusalem everything else and then. i think that now is the time i mean everybody is so confused including also but still there is the support for for peace even more than before as

a result of that as a nation and let's use it. for his memory and finish the job. and elicit do it very carefully for 2 hours and then he said that not now not mom i don't think that people are ready to leave the jordan valley which was part of the map so that israel should withdraw for the dawn of. and. i think that today to bring it to the people when with his image well it enormously much or what but this is the opportunity i was not. strong enough to believe it is your biggest mistake reconsidering i did not come again to him with this

and. maybe it is in me maybe it is part of my weakness maybe it was just a mistake i don't know but if you ask me where there are rape i don't regret it i had apparently to fight for. it in for the permanent agreement. on may 5th 1906 i found myself back in the familiar surroundings of the hilton taba . i wondered about the 3 years that had passed since i 1st met abu allah and also low. since then our lives had become a combination of promise and anguish. the process was started and withstood tremendous trials since the 1st day and asked no and up until this current exchange

in may 961001 100 days of peace talks had passed when we said our farewells that day i never imagined that it would be my last and final meeting with abu allah in my official role as head of the israeli negotiating team. if i had known it was all going to end maybe i would have come up with something more intelligent to say to him. but all i said to our boy allow was see you soon my friend. nearly 80 percent of israel's or 1000000 voters dreams of polling stations everyone seems to understand why piss alexion was important. in suburban tel aviv voters chose peres the peace process that he would one be in a bloody army already in a bloody war in the west bank city of hebron jewish settlers voted for netanyahu

they just want to be give our land to the obvious so of course we are voting for because i mean if i go tonight those who support the steps israel has taken toward peace are clinging to the hold that they may be the ultimate winner. and have told the shah and should watch on the opposition its official a turnabout in the 1906 elections the next prime minister is binyamin netanyahu and you know he received 50.4 percent of the us i'm not quibble well shimon peres received only $49.00 and a half percent it's. it's

like someone building a breach and building and building and building something that could have really changed. the middle east and to. make these comes one c. $100.00 it's and it was a waste. i felt so bad. when it all collapsed because i help it already and i failed we can do it we can do it and then. it went wrong and i know it's not in my life but probably not in my kids' lifetime maybe the grandchildren. us.

should. shoot. shoot. shoot. shoot it to their comrades. lavery supporters. friends. the state of israel is embarking on a new path to under shariah i. well you get on the focal. length you get a belated. and. well and that the. good of

a lady. many in the us. well it didn't slip a little. bit. more than the end line and the bar. to. this moment. well the board. is a little. fun getting something. like killing bin. laden. thing as.

long as. he's still an optimist he still believes there's a chance for peace between us and i'm going to stand among the girls and i'm both down the can not all fall upon the cinema no false phone no god there is an ongoing war. but there were people think in the wall that all know the story only victims. no wars at all finish. unless it's mean replace ropes.

and. the. long run. by the time i can think of the man behind the. severe female role. no more and no women in indian states of maharashtra are becoming lawn tennis i have a large out there taking a sustainable approach to landing in any environment i'm stephanie see the well.

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