Reply #51: No he wasn't, and no he wasn't.

[Julien Sorel]

It's a myth, a fantasy, a piece of propaganda told by people like our friend aquart to make the Arabs look intransigent, the better to blame them for everything. I believe you said you take post-graduate classes. Check out a book almost certain to be in a decent university library by a man named William Quandt called Peace Process. It's a standard text on the peace process since 1967, and to qualify as such, Quandt does some awful things to make nice with the Israelis, but he covers Barak pretty well, and in fact, is almost fawning. But even he acknowledges that no offers were ever made to the Palestinians. If you like, I can suggest about 6 other books that will say the same, but they aren't so nice about it.