ABSTRACT
My morning began with a walk in the woods with Dahlan, Hassan Asfour, Nabil Sha’ath and Abu Ala. The Palestinians were trying to convince us to have Barak meet with Arafat and resume the negotiations without preconditions. But Barak would not back down from his position, insisting that before such a meeting took place, Arafat should respond in principle to at least one of the ideas presented to him by Clinton, or that were raised in the course of negotiations. Arafat, on his part, remained stubborn, refusing to give any answer.
