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I pointed out that a declaration that NATO would stop its expansion with the Warsaw Pact nations would be tantamount to announcing a new dividing line in Europe, with a smaller Russian empire. He knew he had to but was afraid of the criticism he would get. Sharon would take a hard line toward Arafat and would be supported in doing so by Ehud Barak and the United States. The Israelis depended on the United States to veto such measures, which we normally did.

Joe Lieberman, the event’s first Jewish speaker, gave a fine talk on the values common to all faiths. Leaders of twenty-nine nations from the Arab world, Europe, Asia, and North America, including Boris s focus on my most important priorities, rather than on competing stories that, at the least, would divert pub Bob Rubin and I didn’t make too many policy errors; I believe this was one of them.