Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak told members of a U.S.-led committee investigating the Israeli- Palestinian conflict that the Palestinians “deceived” Israel during last year’s peace talks. In a meeting with members of the Mitchell Committee, Barak was quoted as saying that Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat decided to adopt a path of violence to achieve his goals as early as last July’s Camp David summit, when he rejected peace proposals raised there.
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