Well googling this:
Shlomo Ben-Ami, who was a key participant at Camp David, later admitted: ‘If I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David as well.’
produces 300 hits, which I have not looked at. Given the way their paper was mauled, if it were not correct I suspect it would have been pointed out. Not bullet proof of course, but likely.
Well, after following a few links I did find this one:
democracynow.org
which seems to be the one. It was in interview over his book?
SHLOMO BEN-AMI: Yes, yes. Okay, the last third part of the book, as Dr. Finkelstein says, there is the diplomat, and this same diplomat still behaves in a way as a historian when he says in this book that Camp David was not the missed opportunity for the Palestinians, and if I were a Palestinian I would have rejected Camp David, as well. This is something I put in the book. But Taba is the problem. The Clinton parameters are the problem, because the Clinton parameters, in my view —
Edit: So the quote was from his own book? |
