MON.-SAT. 8 a.m.-6 p.m. SUN. 8 a.m.-3 p. adel : Featuring DELIVERY AVAILABLE emphasizes its importance in breaking the tension. "Negotiations can be bru- tal —g war of attrition — you have to connect on a certain personal level, and humor plays a role." He cites similarities between Palestinian and Jewish humor: a sense of fatalism, cynicism, self-criticism. Savir writes about secret talks that took place in Turin in June 1995 to negotiate a security map. On the plane ride back, Savir and Abu Ala did impressions of Peres and Arafat, while another member of the Israeli team • taught one of the Palestinians to sing "My Yiddishe Mama." He details the back channel negoti- ations in early 1996 between Walid Moualem, head of the Syrian delegation, Dennis Ross and Savir over a peace agreement with Syria. The author doesn't miss the many ironies of the negotiations: Two Israeli security officers negotiated issues of policing with the two Palestinians heading internal security, both of whom had been in Israeli jails. "A common mastery of a language of force, tem- pered by human sympathy" made their relationship work. In one of his first conver- sations with his Palestinian negotiating partners in Oslo, Savir and Abu Ala, chief of the Palestinian group, get into a discussion about fam- ily history and their Jerusalem roots, and Savir quickly points out, "I'm sure Uri Savir we can debate the past for years and never agree. Let's see if we can agree about the future." The past never came up again. In an early stage, the negotiators agree to involve their respective peo- ples in the reconciliation process. "As it turned out," he writes, "we didn't always follow through on that resolu- tion and later had cause to regret it." One of the problems with this whole process is that "95 percent of Israelis have never had a cup of coffee with a Palestinian," he says, noting that "cooperation can't work without knowing each other — and we know very little about them." Had Savir had much experience with Palestinians prior to Oslo? "I am one of the 5 percent," he says, adding, "but not many cups of coffee." Underlying the politics, the book is the story of the genuine friendship that develops between Abu Ala and Savir. The Palestinian is first intro- duced to his Israeli counterpart as "Enemy Number One." Their first handshake — nervous and bit reluc- tant out of habit — in Oslo seems to herald the handshake between their leaders on the White House lawn, which would captivate the world. Abu Ala and Savir are alike in many ways, according to the author. They share a "combination of toughness and passion for their own cause, and an ability to understand the other side and build bridges." 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