most american accounts we have, aaron david miller and the palestinian and israeli foreign minister, he was there. >> rose: they had one position. >> they agreed on what arafat says this has to be better prepared. we can't decide everything at a summit. you finalize an agreement. it was said to the president please i don't think this is going to work i don't think it's prepared don't blame me. what happened when it failed. the president blamed arafat. >> rose: that demand further examination. i mean was there on the table because -- >> that was the worse things that happened there. >> rose: wait, if in fact the thing we all thought was on the table which is essentially was all the major pointserritory and the terms defined in certain ways -- >> considerably less than later on was negotiated and considerably less than the clinton parameters. what was put on the table was -- >> rose: did he ever say he would have accepted later what was on the table at taba he would have accepted. >> i don't know if he would have accepted. he never had hat ha opportunity buzz he himself went undermined

the term israel's lawyer it was an american diplomat who's been engaged for decades in this aaron david miller and he himself was quoting sector state kissinger so i think it's an apt term in fact united states has not been an honest broker when i was an advisor to the palestinian negotiators from ninety one to ninety three we saw multiple instances of the united states supposedly mediating but in fact being even less forthcoming than were the israelis themselves and so you know clearly the united states has not been an honest broker or a fair mediator in fact it has tended to be even less even less willing to take certain daring moves than where the israel is at certain past stance and have had a certain level of confidence in certain us presidents right you argue that right now the palestinians carry deep disappointment in the u.s. president barack obama. well. a number of us presidents including president obama at early stages in their presidency have tried to push beyond the arm biloba of what is accepted in terms of what the israelis will let you get away with basically what the lobby wil

one of them, aaron david miller, who was one of the people we dealt with and who's been involved with us for decades in his book describes the united states as acting as israel's lawyer. he was, in fact, quoting henry kissinger, who should know. the docmta cited in the book shows american diplomats time and again took positions as a result of careful prior coordination with the israeli side. how do you get to a solution in that situation is hard for me to understand. as i said, sometimes these positions were more proisraeli, quote-on-quote, and from camp david onwards, there's an unbiased intermediary, but generally operated in defense of israel's interests, and on top of the systematic detriplet of those of the palestinians, and in my view, systematic detriment to the possibility of a just and lasting peace between the two people. all of this was cloaked in high sounding, but thoroughly dishonest language. in conclusion, let me say that a number of broad patterns contributed to this position. palestinian weakness, i have not talked about. i wrote a book about hat, "thecs how badly th