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Source: http://www.forward.com/issues/2003/03.07.25/arts3.html
Barak: At Camp David "Arafat Refused - and All the Rest Is Gossip"
(Forward) - Chemi Shalev At a seminar recently hosted by Tel Aviv University titled "The Camp David Summit - What Went Wrong?" former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak summed up the July 2000 summit with this succinct verdict: "Yasser Arafat refused - and all the rest is gossip." But former ambassador to Israel Martin Indyk and former State Department senior Middle East negotiator Aaron Miller now concur that the all-out pursuit of a peace agreement with Syrian president Hafez Al-Assad in the months prior to Camp David probably played a pivotal and potentially fatal role in determining the summit's ultimate failure.