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All the volunteers got in return for their efforts, apart from the satisfaction of serving, was an annual thank-you reception Hillary and I hosted for them on the South Lawn. Yitzhak had been rushed to the hospital, and for a good while we didn’t know how badly he’d been wounded. It was also too late. I had had the others to dinner, met with and called them, and had their closest friends in the administration lobby them, to no avail.

I left the meeting encouraged by the prime minister’s openness to reconciliation with Turkey and its entry into the EU i ut eighty members of the White House staff and the departments for an all-day meeting at Blair House to focus on tw The Israelis would also give up a little more of the West Bank and probably a larger land swap than Barak’s last best offer, but they would keep enough to hold at least 80 percent of the settlers. The Justice Department’s pardon office knew that they couldn’t get heat for delaying cases or for recommending denials;