Author

Publication

1998 - Random House, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

84,000 words, Guess

Page Count

336 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing13944
  • Goodreads4007481

Classifications

  • DDC956.04
  • LCCDS119.76 .S78 1998

Description

"Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official encounter between Israel and the PLO. The atmosphere was tense. Savir read from prepared notes: "The aim of Israel's elected government," he began, "is to bring about a historic reconciliation with the Palestinian people. We have no interest in only a cosmetic change of the status quo. It is not our wish to control your lives ...." This book is the Israeli chief negotiator's extraordinary account of those negotiations, their implementation and aftermath, and of the unlikely partnership that emerged between Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Shimon Peres.

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Other Editions

  • The process: 1,100 days that changed the Middle EastRandom House1998-01-01

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