Item ELUSIVE PEACE 2/8 - Transcript of interview with Brigadier General Eival Giladi (Gilady), 2005

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Brig Gen Eival Giladi, Head of the Israel Defence Forces’ Strategic Planning Division 2001-2004, 2005, describing meetings with Gen Anthony Charles Zinni, US Special Envoy to Israel and the Palestinian Authority, 2002, including reception of the Zinni ceasefire plan, Mar 2002; the impact of the suicide bombing of the Park Hotel, Netanya, Israel, Mar 2002, and the complexities of selection of targets for retaliatory attacks; the conduct of Operation DEFENSIVE SHIELD in Jenin and the UN Security Council resolution to send a fact finding mission to investigate the Operation, Apr 2002; attempts to resolve the siege of the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem by Israeli Defence Forces, Apr-May 2002; attempts to resolve the second siege of the compound of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, Ramallah, Sept 2002; negotiations surrounding the road map for peace plan, particularly the security aspects of the plan, 2002-2003; American reaction to the building of the security fence around Israeli territory, 2003; reaction to the suicide bombing in Jerusalem, Aug 2003; the announcement of Ariel Sharon’s, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, disengagement plan, Dec 2003. 89 pp. Also transcript of the same filmed interview with minor differences in text and editing.