Israeli–Palestinian Negotiations through the Eyes of US Presidential Interpreter Gamal Helal

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Notes

1 Thomas L. Friedman, “An Intriguing Signal From the Saudi Crown Prince”, The New York Times, February 17, 2002, https://www.nytimes.com/2002/02/17/opinion/an-intriguing-signal-from-the-saudi-crown-prince.html.

2 See Marwan Muasher, The Arab Center: The Promise of Moderation (New Haven, 2008); and Raphael Cohen-Almagor, “The role of the Arab world in the Arab–Israeli Conflict: Interview with Marwan Muasher,” Israel Affairs, XXIX:5 (2023), 864–94.

3 Raphael Cohen-Almagor, “The Pursuit of Peace with the Palestinians: Interviews with Ehud Barak,” Israel Affairs, XXIX:2 (March 2023), 1–66.

4 Helal is referring to the failed Israeli–Syrian peace process.

5 On July 19, 2000, Clinton left Camp David to attend the G7 talks in Okinawa, Japan. Clinton returned to Camp David on July 23.

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Raphael Cohen-Almagor

Raphael Cohen-Almagor is Professor and Chair in Politics at the University of Hull and is presently Olof Palme Guest Professor at Lund University. He is the founder of Israel's Second Generation to the Holocaust and Heroism Remembrance Organization, the University of Haifa Center for Democratic Studies, the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Medical Ethics Think Tank, and the Middle East Study Centre of Hull University. Prof. Cohen-Almagor is the author of a number of books, including, most recently, Confronting the Internet's Dark Side (2015) and Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism (2021). His Resolving the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict: A Critical Study of Peace Mediation, Facilitation and Negotiations between Israel and the PLO is forthcoming.