Dmitriy Sheyn retweeté

Testimony from Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan - the man who was in the room with Yasser Arafat in January 2001, when he rejected the Clinton Parameters (accepted by Israel) for the establishment of a Palestinian state.
“I wanted to cry. My heart burned over how the opportunity was lost once again…”
For context: the Parameters were President Bill Clinton’s final and far-reaching proposal for peace. They included a Palestinian state in nearly all of the West Bank and Gaza (with land swaps), a capital in East Jerusalem, and other major concessions. Israel accepted the framework. Bandar had already secured broad Arab support.
Arafat looked Bandar and the Egyptians in the eye and said he would accept… then lied to their faces and withdrew.
Bandar had previously warned Clinton: “If Arafat rejects this, it will not be a mistake - it will be a crime.” After the collapse, Bandar said his “heart burned” over the lost opportunity “perhaps for the last time.”
Arafat rejected peace and a Palestinian state - and chose terrorism and the Second Intifada instead.
This is not ancient history; it reflects the same ideology of hatred that led to October 7 attacks.
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