Finally, Arafat agreed to see Shimon Peres on the thirteenth after Peres had first met with Saeb Erekat. Nothing came of it. As a back-stop, the Israelis tried to produce a letter with as much agreement on the parameters as
possible
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They got close
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Right before I left office, Arafat, in one of our last conversations
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I warned Arafat that he was single-handedly electing Sharon and that he would reap the whirlwind.
In February 2001
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supported in doing so by Ehud Barak and the United States. Nearly a year after I left office
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