When the Israeli government held a cabinet meeting last May in a tunnel underneath Al-Aqsa Mosque, I remembered asking the late Yasser Arafat, in 2000, about the reasons behind the failure of his latest round of talks with Prime Minister Ehud Barak, under the auspices of President Bill Clinton. Arafat had relayed, with Dr. Nabil Shaath’s presence, that Barak demanded Israeli