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Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Flynt Leverett, US Security Council Adviser, describing meetings with Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser 2001-2005, to formulate an American policy on the Palestinian issue and problems drafting the policy, Mar 2002, the question of US intervention following the launch of Operation DEFENSIVE SHIELD by the Israel Defence Force, Mar 2002; the visit of Gen Colin Powell, US Secretary of State 2001-2005, to the Middle East, including meetings with Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, and Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, and problems with Gen Powell’s farewell statement, Apr 2002; meeting between George W Bush, US President 2001-2009, and HRH Prince Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Crawford, Texas, Apr 2002; the formulation of a speech given by President George W Bush calling for new Palestinian leadership, 24 Jun 2002; meetings between King Abdullah II of Jordan, President George W Bush and Condoleezza Rice regarding the creation of the road map for peace plan and problems with the writing and implementation of the road map, 2002; reaction to the second siege of President Arafat’s compound by the IDF, Sept 2002.

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Maj Mohammed Yusef Al-Daya, bodyguard to Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian National Authority 1994-2004, describing the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, Maryland, USA, Jul 2000; relationship with Arafat; perceptions of Arafat and Abu Mazen (Mahmoud Abbas), President of the Palestinian National Authority 2005-2008.

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Marwan al-Muasher, Jordanian Foreign Minister 2002-2004, describing the Arab League summit, Beirut, Mar 2002; meetings with the Palestinian government to persuade them to take more action, Jun 2002; meetings between King Abdullah II of Jordan, George W Bush, US President 2001-2009, and Condoleezza Rice, US National Security Adviser 2001-2005, regarding the creation of the road map for peace plan, problems with drafts of the road map, and reactions to the road map, 2002; Arab reaction to ‘The Disengagement Plan’, issued by Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel 2001-2006, Apr 2004, and the cancellation of a trip to the United States by King Abdullah II of Jordan, Apr 2004

Typescript transcript of a filmed interview with Martin Indyk, US Ambassador to Israel, 1995-1997, and 2000-2001, Account of American-led negotiations between Israeli and Arab delegation during the US Presidency of William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton, 1993-2001; Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, Maryland, USA, Jul 2000.

Typescript transcript of roll 339 of a filmed interview with Samuel R ‘Sandy’ Berger, US National Security Adviser 1997-2001, describing the relationship between William Jefferson ‘Bill’ Clinton, US President 1993-2001, and Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001; attendance at Israeli-Syrian negotiations in Geneva, Switzerland, Jan 2000; Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David, Jul 2000.

One DVD of television documentary Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace, programmes 1-3. English, Hebrew and Arabic with English subtitles (180 minutes)

Book The high cost of peace: how Washington’s Middle East policy left America vulnerable to terrorism by Yossef Bodansky (Forum Prima, Roseville, California, USA, 2002).

‘The Zinni Plan’, ceasefire plan given to Israeli and Palestinian negotiators by Gen Anthony Charles Zinni, US Special Envoy to Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, 26 March 2002.

Report ‘Israel, the occupied West Bank and Gaza Strip, and the Palestinian authorities. Jenin: IDF (Israeli Defence Force) military operations’ by Peter Bouckaert, Miranda Sissons and Johanna Bjorken, published in Human Rights Watch, Vol 14, No 3, 2002, report by three Human Rights Watch researchers based on interviews they conducted with residents of the Jenin refugee camp regarding Israeli Defence Force operations, Apr 2002. Some manuscript annotations.

‘The Mitchell Report’, report of the Sharm el-Sheikh Fact-Finding Committee chaired by George J. Mitchell, former Member and Majority Leader of the United States Senate, encouraging the Government of Israel and the Palestinian Authority to implement the decisions made in Sharm el-Sheikh, 1999-2000, and providing recommendations.

Points to film and questions for interviews with Palestinian interviewees. The questions include research notes, comments and quotes. Some questions were prepared for interviewees for whom there is no transcript or recorded interview.

Interviewees include Abu Ala’a (also known as Ahmed Qurei), Prime Minister, Palestinian National Authority, 2003-2006; Dr Ziad Abu Amr, Minister of Culture, 2003; Yasser Arafat, President, Palestinian National Authority, 1996-2004; Hassan Asfour, Minister for NGO Affairs, 1999-2002; Mohammed Dahlan, Minister of State for security, 2003; Mohammed Daya, Yasser Arafat’s bodyguard; Saeb Erekat, Minister of Negotiation Affairs, 1996-2003; Salam Fayyad, Palestinian Finance Minister, 2002-2007; Hani Al Hassan, head of Fatah; Ghassan Al-Khatib, Minister of Labour, 2002; Abu Mazen (also known as Mahmoud Abbas), President, Palestinian National Authority, 2005- ; Yasser Abed Rabbo, Minister of Information, 2003-2006; Mohammed Rachid, financial adviser to Yasser Arafat; Jibril Rajoub, Head of Preventative Security Service, West bank, 1994-2002 and national Security Adviser, 2003-2004; Nabil Abu Rudineh, adviser to President Yasser Arafat; Nabil Shaath, Minister of Planning and International Co-operation, 1994-2003 and Foreign Minister, 2003-2005.

Points to film and questions for interviews with Israeli interviewees. The questions include research notes, comments and quotes. Some questions were prepared for interviewees for whom there is no transcript or recorded interview.

Interviewees include Amihai (Ami) Ayalon, Director, Shin Bet, 1995-2000; Daniel Ayalon, Israeli Ambassador to the US, 2002-2006; Ehud Barak, Prime Minister of Israel, 1999-2001; Shlomo Ben Ami, Minister of Public Security, 1999-2000 and Foreign Minister, 2000-2001; Binyamin Ben-Eliezer, Deputy Prime Minister, 1999-2001 and Defence Minister, 2001-2002; Giora Eiland, Director of Israel’s National Security Council, 2004-2006; Brig Gen Eival Giladi, Gidi Grinstein, Secretary and Coordinator, Israeli negotiation team, 1999-2001; Mike Herzog, military secretary to the Defence Ministers, 2001-2004; Joseph (Tomy) Lapid, Minister of Justice and Deputy Prime Minister, 2003-2006; Amnon Lipkin-Shahak, Chief of Staff, Israeli Army, 1995-1999, Minister of Tourism, 1999 and Minister of Transport, 2000-2001; Dan Meridor, Chairman, Foreign Affairs Committee, Knesset, 2000 and Minister without Portfolio, 2001-2003; Shaul Mofaz, Chief of Staff, Israeli Army, 1998-2002 and Defence Minister, 2002-2006; Benjamin Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, 1996-1999 and Minister of Finance, 2003-2005; Shimon Peres, Prime Minister, 1995-1996 and Foreign Minister, 2001-2002; Itamar Rabinovich, Israeli Ambassador to the US, 1993-1996; Uri Saguie, negotiator with Syria, 1999-2000; Silvan Shalom, Finance Minister 2001-2003 and Foreign Minister, 2003-2006; Ariel Sharon, Prime Minister of Israel, 2001-2006; Gilead Sher, Israeli Chief Negotiator, 1999-2001; Danny Yatom, security adviser to Ehud Barak, 1999-2001.

Points to film and questions for interviews with interviewees from the UK, Jordan, Saudi Arabia, France and Norway. The questions include research notes, comments and quotes. Some questions were prepared for interviewees for whom there is no transcript or recorded interview.

Interviewees include Tony Blair, UK Prime Minister, 1997-2007; Sir Sherard Cowper-Coles, British Ambassador to Israel, 2001-2003; Alastair Crooke, Special Security Adviser to Javier Solana, European Union High Representative and Head of Foreign and Security Policy, 2000-2003; Michael Abraham Levy, Baron of Mill Hill, British Prime Minister’s personal envoy to the Middle East, 1999-2007; His Majesty King Abdullah II, King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan, 1999- ; Marwan Muasher, Ambassador to Washington, 1997-2002 and Foreign Minister, 2002-2004; HRH Prince Bandar Bin Sultan Bin Abdulaziz, Ambassador of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to the USA; HRH Prince Saud Al-Faisal Bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, Foreign Minister, Saudi Arabia; Jacques Chirac, President of France, 1995-2007; Hubert Vedrine, French Foreign Minister, 1997-2002 and Terje Roed-Larsen, UN Special Co-ordinator for the Middle East peace process, 1999-2004.

Points to film and questions for interviews with American interviewees. The questions include research notes, comments and quotes. Some questions were prepared for interviewees for whom there is no transcript or recorded interview.

Interviewees include Richard Armitage, Deputy Secretary of State, 2001-2005; Samuel (Sandy) Berger, National Security adviser, 1997-2001; William Burns, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, 2001-2005; Warren Christopher, US Secretary of State, 1993-1997; William Jefferson (Bill) Clinton, US President, 1993-2001; Gamal Helal, US Arabic translator; Martin Indyk, US Ambassador to Israel, 1999-2001; Dr Flynt Leverett, Senior Director for Middle East Affairs, 2002-2003; Robert Malley, Executive Assistant to the National Security Adviser, 1997-2001; Aaron Miller, deputy special Middle East co-ordinator for Arab-Israeli negotiations, State Department, 1994-2001 and senior adviser on Arab-Israeli negotiations, 2001-2003; Colin Powell, Secretary of State, 2001-2005; Dennis Ross, adviser to Secretary of State, 1997-2001; John Wolf, special envoy to the Middle East, 2003-2004; Gen Antony Charles Zinni, Special Envoy to the Israel and the Palestinian National Authority, 2001-2002.

Post production scripts of programmes 1-3 of documentary Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace, as broadcast by American television station PBS (Public Broadcasting Service)

Post production scripts of programmes 1-3 of documentary Israel and the Arabs: Elusive Peace, as broadcast by British television station BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation)