Akiva Eldar: che cosa ha veramente detto Arafat a Barak
1 What really happened between Barak and Arafat at Camp David ... What really happened between Barak and Arafat at Camp David? Akiva Eldar http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1116910.html In the spring of 2007, on the eve of the Labor Party elections that restored him to political life, Ehud Barak and I were sitting in a Tel Aviv cafe. I asked him what really happened at the 2000 Camp David talks. Barak's emphatic observation following the summit - that "we have no Palestinian partner" - was intended to justify its failure, but became a double-edged sword. His claim that Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat had planned in advance to exploit the summit's failure to then launch the second intifada destroyed the Israeli public's faith in the peace process. Shimon Peres later said that Barak succeeded in turning the failure of Camp David into an ideology. And anyway, what's a person supposed to think of his neighbors when a prime minister "who offered the