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To: Noel de Leon who wrote (192595)	7/21/2006 11:19:10 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

The final offers were made by Clinton and according to him, dictated word by word to Arafat. They weren't laid down in a formal map & document because experience taught people never to do that with Arafat - he only came back with NEW demands, not a compromise. If you'll notice, the date that Barak broke off was after Bush became president. Everybody knew that either this got done under Clinton, or Barak would go into elections and lose to Sharon. However, All the Americans and all the Israelis are united in what was offered. The Pal story has changed over time, and is often buttressed with maps that the Israelis brought from some earlier point in the negotiations. And nobody ever claimed that Arafat made any counter-offer. Because he didn't. That's because Arafat wanted to always be dealing, but never to make a deal. While he was dealing, he got concessions and paid for them with worthless promises. But he had not prepared the ground for actually doing a deal. That would have needed him to compromise with the continued existence of Israel, and he couldn't do that. That way he never gave of the dream of being the new Saladin.