The process : 1,100 days that changed the Middle East / Uri Savir.

Includes index.

A first encounter -- The Oslo road map -- Mutual recognition -- Contrasts and contradictions -- From Tunis to Gaza -- Planning security -- Dismantling the occupation -- Peace and violence -- An old-new Middle East -- Old-new lands -- Another encounter.

""Meet your Enemy Number One," a nervous Norwegian diplomat said to Uri Savir, the young director-general of Israel's Foreign Ministry, as he introduced him to Abu Ala, one of Yasser Arafat's top aides. They were in Oslo, and this was the first official encounter between Israel and the PLO. The atmosphere was tense. Savir read from prepared notes: "The aim of Israel's elected government," he began, "is to bring about a historic reconciliation with the Palestinian people. We have no interest in only a cosmetic change of the status quo. It is not our wish to control your lives ...."" "This book is the Israeli chief negotiator's extraordinary account of those negotiations, their implementation and aftermath, and of the unlikely partnership that emerged between Yitzhak Rabin, Yasser Arafat, and Shimon Peres."--BOOK JACKET.