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To: Thomas M. who wrote (1508)	4/17/2002 12:27:58 PM
From: Brumar89	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6945

What you have posted is not consistent with what Ross described. Perhaps the bolded area explains why. foxnews.com ROSS: True, 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. HUME: Right. ROSS: What a surprise they haven't presented it to their own public. HUME: Now, you see Powell there. He must know, as you do, that that was an offer acceptable to some of the people around Arafat, probably therefore acceptable to many people in the Palestinian world over there. Yasser Arafat was the guy who said no. Reading Ross' statements above, you will see the offer Arafat turned down was an oral one from the US - not based on a map supplied by Barak.