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Date(s)
- [2004] (Creation)
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Item
Extent
67pp
Scope and content
Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Gilead Sher, Israeli Chief Negotiator, 1999-2001 and Israeli Chief of Staff, 1999-2001, describing the first meeting between Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel 1999-2001, and Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, at the Erez Crossing, Gaza, Jul 1999; the impact of the Israeli withdrawal from Lebanon, May 2000; meeting with Yasser Arafat to persuade him to attend the Camp David summit, Nablus, Jun 2000; the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, Maryland, USA, Jul 2000, including the American contribution to the summit, discussions within the Israeli negotiating team, particularly regarding the division of Jerusalem, official and private meetings between Israeli and Palestinian negotiators, conversations with Ehud Barak; reaction to the visit to the Temple Mount and al-Asqa mosque, Jerusalem, by Ariel Sharon, leader of the Israeli Likud Party 1999-2005, Sep 2000; cease fire negotiations at the residence of the US Ambassador, Paris, France, 4 Oct 2000, particularly the behaviour of Jacques Chirac, President of France 1995-2007 ; the presentation of the Clinton Parameters (the Clinton Plan) by William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton, US President 1993-2001, Dec 2000.