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Originally Posted by sugarpop

And to be clear, I remember reading an article, and seeing a documentary on PBS (maybe it was Frontline?) or somewhere back in the late 90s/early 2000s, where Clinton had said he was frustrated with Israel because they were the ones who were being unreasonable when he was trying to broker peace between them.

http://www.breakingnews.ie/archives/.../kfojmhmhidey/

Bill Clinton held Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat responsible for the collapse of Middle East peace efforts, and told him so, the former president said in an interview published ahead of his new book’s release.

Clinton said that as he was preparing to leave the White House, Arafat thanked him for his work and called him a great man.

"I replied: 'I am not a great man. I am a failure, and you have made me one,'" Clinton said.

He said then-Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak was ready to make major concessions for peace in 2000 but Arafat was not able to "make the final jump from revolutionary to statesman … he just couldn’t bring himself to say yes".