📧 Communication

This document appears to be a page from a memoir or report by former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (indicated by the header '/ BARAK /'). It details diplomatic confrontations during the early stages of the Second Intifada (late 2000), focusing on a meeting at the Elysée Palace with French President Jacques Chirac and US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright. The text describes Barak's frustration with Yasser Arafat's alleged duplicity regarding violence in the region and Chirac's perceived bias toward the Palestinian narrative regarding casualty figures.