📧 Communication

This document is a proof page (p. xxxviii) from a book titled 'The Crooked Course', dated October 9, 2014, bearing a House Oversight Bates stamp. The text provides a historical overview of Arab-Israeli peace negotiations from 1967 to 2000, detailing the Camp David Accords, Oslo Accords, and the Israel-Jordan peace treaty. The narrative perspective is first-person ('me') from the viewpoint of the UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process in 1999 (historically Terje Rød-Larsen), discussing a private dialogue with Israeli PM Ehud Barak regarding withdrawal from Lebanon.