Surveys by James Carville and Stan Greenberg and by Democratic pollster Mark Mellman had indicated that, nat Well past midnight, I went back to the Oval Office again to clean up, pack, and answer a few letters. Netanyahu said he couldn’t release Hamas members or others “with blood on their hands,” and he thought no more than five hundred could be let go. Then the Israelis balked.
On the morning after my speech to the Palestinians, Netanyahu, Arafat, and I met at the Erez border cross He was also eager for a deal before September, when Arafat had threatened to unilaterally declare a state. ns of three Israelis still listed as missing in action from the Lebanon war almost twenty years earlier. It wasn’t all my doing.
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