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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (32148)	6/11/2002 8:42:36 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Just read the NY Review of Books piece. Not surprisingly, I think that Agha and Malley do not have the facts on their side so they are resorting to insults -- "demagoguery" and the like. As is usual we read things very differently. I confess to giving up on Barak's argument when he made those objectionable claims about Arab culture--as a culture of lies. After that, as I read, I kept that in mind. So now I believe he is capable of A & M's claims that he tells the left he offered more than any previous left government had and tells the right he offered less than any previous right government. I could itemize this list much longer. What, however, is a basic given now for me, I came away from reading this material, is that there is no solid ground from which to argue "facts" in the Camp David-Taba process. So one cannot, with some degree of certainty, argue motives based on "facts." One of the things I found most interesting in all this material is that the quotes from the Mitchell report, whenever offered, made the most sense of the process of anything I've read. Another thing that will stick with me is Peres' comment about Barak that he is trying to ideologize his failure. Clearly no love lost there.