📧 Communication

This document appears to be a page from a memoir or manuscript by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (indicated by the header '/ BARAK /'), produced as part of a House Oversight investigation (likely related to Epstein due to Barak's association, though Epstein is not mentioned on this page). The text details diplomatic tensions during the Second Intifada (circa late 2000), focusing on a contentious meeting at the Elysée Palace with French President Jacques Chirac, US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright, and Yasser Arafat. Barak describes his frustration with Arafat's alleged duplicity regarding violence and Chirac's demand for an international force.