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It was the kind of mistake we had worked hard to avoid. It was a hard deal, but if they wanted peace, I thought it was fair to both sides. David Gergen, Bernie Nussbaum, and Kendall were against asking for an independent counsel, because there were no g The odds of success on any of these items, much less all three, were not great, in part because none of the leaders were particularly strong coming into the meeting.

Martin said publicly that he’d been at Oxford with me and had seen me try but fail to inhale at a party. Although Barak had pushed hard for the early negotiations, he soon began to worry about the political consequences of giving up the Golan without having prepared the Israeli public for it. But I knew we couldn’t hold that margin. Sultan Hassanal Bolkiah hosted our meeting in a beautiful new hotel and convention center.