What changed from the previous negotiations in Taba and Cairo?
I think that the world has changed. We had a new reality with these negotiations. We had a new reality with this new government. There was a big change in Israel. There was a big change in the whole peace process. I remember the first day I sat with Binyamin Netanyahu’s political advisor Dore Gold back in July, 1996, after the Israeli elections. He said he came from a non-Oslo constituency. I had to tell him you are a democracy, and as a democracy you must be committed to the previous government’s decisions. I do not think you have the right to be selective in what you accept and what you reject. As to the nature of the negotiations, had the Israeli side agreed to implement the guidelines of the Hebron agreement as they were signed on September 28,1995, they would not have had all these problems. But they insisted on modifications. At one point they told us they cannot implement Hebron without these modifications. This really increased our concern, and we were more suspicious of the in
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