Have now had a chance to watch part 3 of Bandar's harsh censure of the Palestinian leadership. From my own experience I can attest to the accuracy of his account of Arafat's failure to accept the Clinton Parameters in December 2000. Note Bandar confirms that: 1. Barak accepted...
https://twitter.com/AlArabiya_Eng/status/1313905420491206662
...the Clinton Parameters. 2. Arafat lied when he told the Saudi and Egyptian ambassadors that he had accepted them. 3. Rather than pressing Arafat to accept, Bandar ran away. Years later King Abdullah told President Clinton that it was his greatest regret that he did not press..
Arafat to accept the Clinton Parameters. I heard directly from Mubarak's Egyptian advisers that he too regretted not pressing Arafat to accept. This is the other side of Bandar's story. Arab leaders are prepared to support the Palestinian cause but they will not...
press the Palestinians to compromise. They fear Palestinian denunciation of their pressure more than they fear Palestinian criticism of their normalization of relations with Israel. Therefore the Pals would be wiser to use normalization to leverage concessions from Israel than
to cling to a failing anti-normalization policy that will leave them standing on principle but losing all Arab leverage to achieve those principles.
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