came out in the past hour Hillary rodom Clinton has published her third Memoir and in this Memoir she claims that her husband in the year 2000 I don't know if you know about this if it could possibly be true crafted a two-state solution that the Israelis accepted and Yasser Arafat did not and she blames Arafat for everything that happened since then if Arafat had listen to my husband the Palestinians would be celebrating their 23rd year as a Sovereign Nation could this possibly be true it's utter nonsense it is the Israeli line about the last ditch effort of the Clinton Administration to produce something viable uh in in the Holy Land um one can get into needless detail but essentially yaser Arafat was isolated uh he was not offered a an acceptable uh basis for two states um the uh the the the effort failed and it failed in part because I think of the insensitivity of some of the Americans who arranged this meeting uh it is in case that the people's the Palestine Liberation Organization the PLO which y about headed um required and and because because of its relationship to the Arab world more broadly and to its own people required the ability to consult actively with other Arabs and with um with with other Palestinians and they were sequestered and not allowed to communicate uh and this of course uh even if the offer that had been made was was was acceptable uh was an impediment to agreement so this was a case of inept diplomacy on our part right as much as it was the usual Israeli refusal to offer terms that give the Palestinians the Dignity of self-determination and the usual Israeli refusal was under the tutelage of the so-called liberal