Former US president Bill Clinton on Wednesday said young people in America today “can’t believe” that late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat walked away from a Palestinian state during peace negotiations with Israel under his mediation as president.

Clinton added, in reference to the failed Camp David talks of 2000, that having turned down a “once in a lifetime” peace opportunity, “you can’t complain 25 years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there.”

“I think what’s happened there in the last twenty-five years is one of the great tragedies of the twenty-first century,” Clinton told New York Times journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, in an interview for the newspaper’s DealBook Summit, promoting his new book, “Citizen: My Life After The White House.”

The Times posted a video of the interview to its New York Times Events+ YouTube channel; the video was removed on Thursday, but re-uploaded shortly thereafter.

“All [young people in America] know that a lot more Palestinians have been killed than Israelis. And I tell them what Arafat walked away from, and they, like, can’t believe it,” said the former commander-in-chief.

Arafat “walked away from a Palestinian state, with a capital in East Jerusalem, 96% of the West Bank, 4% of Israel to make up for the 4% [of the West Bank to be annexed for Israeli settlements],” Clinton elaborated, repeating an account of the Oslo peace negotiations, to which the ex-president has returned repeatedly in recent interviews and remarks.


“I go through all the stuff that was in the deal, and they, like – it’s not on their radar screen, they can’t even imagine that happened,” Clinton went on, describing his conversations with young Americans upset over the death toll in Gaza in the latest war.

The former US president also noted the sacrifice made by Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin, who was assassinated by a Jewish extremist in Israel over his support for the peace process.

“I tell them, you know, the first and most famous victim of an attempt to get the Palestinians a state was prime minister Rabin, whom I think I loved as much as I ever loved another man,” Clinton said, repeating a phrase he has often used to describe his relationship with the late Israeli leader.

“You walk away from these once in a lifetime peace opportunities, and you can’t complain twenty-five years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there. You can’t do it,” Clinton said.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/bill-clinton-young-americans-shocked-to-learn-araf...

thegreatdivide wrote on Dec 6^th, 2024 at 1:14pm:






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So Buzz and her boyfriend Penny support Terrorism

buzzanddidj wrote on Dec 15^th, 2024 at 9:56am:


Again,

Frank wrote on Dec 15^th, 2024 at 8:50am:






36 minute mark - How Arafat walked away from creating a Palestinian state.

buzzanddidj wrote on Dec 15^th, 2024 at 11:08am:




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Jasin wrote on Dec 15^th, 2024 at 9:11am:


Not so fast with the congratulations:

wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2000_Camp_David_Summit#:~:text=Clinton%20and%20Bar...

(At  Camp David negotiations in the year 2000, between Clinton, Barak, and Arafat).

Clinton and Barak insisted that the entire area be placed under Israeli sovereignty, while Palestinians could have "custodianship". Arafat insisted on Palestinian sovereignty over the Haram (the Temple Mount to Jews). As this deadlock could not be resolved, the summit ended.

Proving the proper solution for sovereignty of Jerusalem was outlined in UN res 181**  (in 1947), because Jews (in 2000) would NOT accept divided sovereignty in Jerusalem (whatever "custodianship" means) whereas the PLO would.

The illegal settlers also "offered"  a land swap so they could remain in the existing  illegal WB settlements established after the 1967 war, an "offer"  which would result in the 'swiss cheese' Palestinian state with the IDF guarding the corridors to the illegal settlements (ie illegal under international law).  Rabin had been murdered by a Jewish zealot only 5 years earlier, for agreeing to give up israeli occupied land, as identified in the Oslo Accords.    

The article also notes that:

"Reports of the outcome of the summit have been described as illustrating the Rashomon effect, in which the multiple witnesses gave contradictory and self-serving interpretations.[3][4][5][6] After the summit, the Israeli narrative was widely accepted by the American media, which sought to cast Arafat as a villain and that Palestinians did not want peace.[7] That narrative lead to the decline of the Israeli peace movement.[/b]

Ah...the lying Israeli bastards easily manipulating a biased American media ...after all, "we offered them swiss cheese and "custodianship" - what's not to like ....

**UN res 181 proposed UN sovereignty over Jerusalem, allowing for open access to the city by all peoples. But the UN proposal doesn't take into account the hideous outcomes of dogmatic religious zealotry...)