I was a member of the delegation whose work helped lead to a historic handshake between Yasser Arafat and Yitzhak Rabin – and we must all refocus on the lessons from that moment
PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat shake hands with Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, as U.S. President Bill Clinton stands between them, after the signing of the Israeli-PLO peace accord, at the White House, on Sept. 13, 1993.Bill Clay is the former director of research and communications for the federal NDP caucus and chief of staff in the Premier’s Office in Nunavut. He is currently based in Copenhagen, where he works in international development.
Across Israel and the Occupied Territories, including Gaza, we met the de facto leadership of the First Palestinian Intifada, but we were missing a direct message from the PLO leader. The Americans and the Israelis were prevented by their own terror laws from talking to the PLO. Who do you call in when you can’t do the talking yourself? Back then, it was the Canadians. Setting up a meeting with Mr.
There was no body search – we were given the same level of trust we had offered – and we met privately with Mr. Arafat. Knowing that he, like Mr. Peres, called himself a socialist, I asked Mr. Arafat the same question: Is there not a better way to achieve peace than war? He, too, said he would speak to whomever the other side put forward – an effective recognition of Israel by the PLO, which was just as radical as what we’d heard from Mr. Peres.
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