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Barak says ‘factual inaccuracies’ in Clinton autobiography

Former prime minister Ehud Barak, rejecting assertions by Bill Clinton that Barak bore major responsibility for the breakdown of Israeli-Syrian peace talks in January, 2000, said Sunday that the former president’s account of the negotiations was based on “factual inaccuracies on the simplest of levels.”

“Clinton is not lying” in the account in the recently published “My Life,” Barak said. But he added that the president was absent from many of the discussions that preceded the breakdown in talks held in Shepherdstown, Virginia, and may have adopted reports given him by aides.

According to Clinton, on the eve of the talks, Barak had led him to understand that in exchange for a full peace with Damascus, Israel would agree to return to the border that existed prior to the June, 1967 Six Day War.

“At no stage was there a Syrian proposal that the Americans knew of, in which they were willing to leave Israel 10 meters, 50 meters, or even one meter (less than the full Syrian demand)” Barak told Army Radio Sunday.

Barak said that “Clinton was not present in Shepherdstown for many of the Shepherdstown discussions.”

Barak said the Clinton account was also inaccurate regarding the positions of his predecessor as prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu. “Netanyahu did not speak of returning to the international border line, rather a line that would leave a strip up to two miles wide,” he said.

Yet another person has come forward about the content of Bill’s book being inaccurate.

It’s interesting that Bill’s book, titled “My Life” – - would include such an important political moment that isn’t about his life. Bill “adopted” the life of one of his aides who had first hand knowledge of the meetings and relayed the information to Bill and he simply put himself into the situation as having been present.

Now with Bill leading his readers to believe he was the one present during the meetings when he wasn’t – - could this be viewed as “artistic license” or… ???

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