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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1487)	4/16/2002 8:48:01 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (2) of 6945

You're just spouting propaganda. foxnews.com ROSS: Let's look at the terms. Let me spell out exactly what it was. It was something that we offered, by the way. There's a kind of imagery out there that Barak made an offer. It was a U.S. offer. HUME: Barak accepted it? ROSS: Barak was willing to accept it. .... When it came to security, there would have been an international process in the Jordan Valley. Now, I will tell you that Palestinian negotiators clearly thought this was acceptable. It was unacceptable to only one man — Yasser Arafat. ..... HUME: Now, they also say that the offer would have divided Palestinian territory into four separate cantons and entirely surrounded and therefore controlled by Israel. ROSS: Untrue, completely untrue. There were going to get a net 97 percent of the territory. In the West Bank, it would have been 95 percent of the West Bank. There was going to be a swap that would have added onto the size of Gaza. They were going to have their own border with Jordan. There was not going to be an Israeli presence there. There were not going to be cantons. There were not going to be divisions. They were getting contiguous territory in the West Bank. When they say that, they're referring to a map the Israelis showed to them first in May, and a map the Israelis presented at Camp David in July. That was not what the United States presented in December. HUME: Which Barak accepted? ROSS: Which Barak accepted. HUME: So this idea that there was a nine-to-one land swap in Israel's favor is bogus? ROSS: That's bogus. That is what Camp David was. It's not what the Clinton ideas were. When you hear this, this is part of the mythology. They have never yet to this day honestly presented to their own public what it is that was presented because when you hear it as we just described it, you say it looks like a pretty good deal. I know this isn't what you want the truth to be so you will slander Ross. You will be lying. He was Clinton's chief mideast negotiator - clearly as knowledgeable as anyone. And clearly a professional and reliable source. cnn.com Before joining the Bush administration in 1991 as a senior adviser to then-Secretary of State George Baker, Ross was the chief foreign policy adviser to George Bush's campaign in 1988. He has served in various Pentagon and National Security Council posts under Presidents Carter and Reagan.

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