George Cliton blames Arafat for failue
I read Clinton’s biography a few months ago and I agreed with what he said about the blame in the failure of peace in Israel. The Palistian leadership had the chance to truly make peace with Israel provided that he would give up the right of return for the refugees. Israel naturally balked at the very idea of inviting back into ITS country the Palistian people, we are talking numbers that exceed your population. It is the equivalent of the U.S. inviting 400 Million Muslims and then have them vote and elect their own leadership. That is the problem, Israel is a democracy and having a new population that exceeds the Jewish People in pure numbers will destroy your country.
Isn't the purpose of giving the Palestian people their own country the purpose of negotiation? The right of return should of been the right to return to Palistian that is created from the agreements, not the right to return to Israel. How would that possibly be agreeable to Israel forcing them to accept a population of 24 million that greatly exceeds YOUR population of 6 million.
In conclusion the blame rests on Arafat when he not only refused the agreement, he refused to NEGOTIATE about it. A year later under Ariel Sharon's government Arafat accepted the peace accord. "Arafat's watch was wound 15 minutes too late" That quote is from Bill Clinton.