Barak says `factual errors' in Clinton's `My Life' [View All]

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Barak says `factual errors' in Clinton's `My Life'

By Haaretz Staff



Former prime minister Ehud Barak, rejecting assertions by Bill Clinton that he bore major responsibility for the breakdown of Israeli-Syrian peace talks in January, 2000, said yesterday that the former U.S. president's account of the negotiations was based on "factual inaccuracies on the simplest of levels."




"Clinton is not lying" in the account in the recently published "My Life," Barak said, but he added that the president was absent from many of the discussions that preceded the breakdown in talks held in Shepherdstown, West Virginia, and may have adopted reports given to him by aides.

According to Clinton, on the eve of the talks, Barak had led him to understand that in exchange for a full peace with Damascus, Israel would agree to return to the border that existed prior to the 1967 Six Day War. Such a border would entail a full Israeli withdrawal from the Golan Heights plus ceding an additional strip of land along the Kinneret.

Israel has long publicly held that it would not agree to the full Syrian demands, and that Damascus was asking for too large a swath of land along the lake.......

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