In view of the sad state of the political situation in Israel he was prepared to I2=do his individual bit in sticking out his neck to make the event a test for the §1/J=self justification of his position power. President Clinton acknowledged his courage in following his initiative. For this event Barak was able to *3=submit his power in order to go along with an -4 experiment in which all +2 concerned could share their %1 suffering and %5 compete in view of the %6 impatience of their respective electorates: However, he needs to do the same now in the Knesset! And that under the far tougher circumstances of having to §2/!=die away from the Camp David atmosphere to the politics at home.  

In coming to Camp David, the parties left behind their *3 complacency, -4 ambition, and -2 enduring  %1 readiness to use each other as scapegoats, %5 grateful to be able to go on and in their %6 negative thinking trying to please their enemies at home. The Arab-Israeli relationship demands a X balanced fairness, which neither the political two-party system of Israel nor the mass manipulation dependent system of the Arab culture can provide. The unmet task to mend the Israeli-Arab relationship has thus been a continuous challenge to the American presidents: one which they could only barely face with individual personal competence#3 and never in their role in their c3-political system, which is too crude too. And as we now know. has fallen in the same 49.9/50.1% trap... 

In its blocked struggle to become a full member of the nations of this world, Israel is a continuous challenge, which still arouses anti-Semitism. That in turn makes the Jews *3 blame others, where and when they cannot, or do not want to -4/+2 compete with what is imposed on them. Human mentality is full of the corresponding %1distortions and the resulting eye for eye %5 aggression and %6-simplifications that lead to scapegoating. 

Personally neutral science#2, the philosophy based humanities, pretend to be a solution to that problem, while in fact they are the problem! 

Unless Judaism meets the challenge of the the resulting aimlessness in view of lifefulfillment rather than continually displacing it onto the Wailing Wall or the hope for the Messiah, it remains its own stumbling block, unable to contribute the y=minimum mutual understanding it takes to live together with each others or with other nations. 

Unless Israel's system wardens overcome the §3/c-inferiority of their arguing, Israel cannot maintain its identity with its own c=constraints, which it tries to impose on the people in the still occupied areas. In the Palestinian situation there is even less comfort in view of what does not work for peace for the Israelis, the prevailing postmodern c3-way of thinking in the 1st world promoted by the leading intellectuals! The fact is, a Jerusalem Platform requires a radically new way of thinking! It is not enough to have radical weapons, say atom bombs and anti-missile missiles, available!

PS. This life-principle I used for Israel is actually mine also, so I have some 56 years of experience to know waht I am talking about... 

Rather than giving in to the *3 distress connected to the end of presidency or -4 sulking about his wife's new career, he +2 identified with the real distress in the Middle East, Clinton time and again was %1 letting go of the futile political battles in Washington by preparing a new %5 commitment to meet his %6 hidden, personal agenda:

He had his chance to go beyond what former President Carter did by %6 appealing to c3-altruism.

Bill Clinton seems to have enough experience to understand the end of the c3-age and use the rest of his life in the service of the unavoidable transition from fragmenting life to fulfilling it for as many as possible. 

Undoubtedly his presidency has prepared the economic conditions for some degree of fulfillment and that will hopefully not be wasted in another war instead!

As to him personally, he has established close ties to the key players in the Jerusalem problem which gives him a platform worthy of his life's fulfillment beyond his presidency. 

The fact is Israel, specifically Jerusalem, is the place to start installing §0 in form of a sustainable lifefulfilling platform, primarily because this place is the M=maximum risk spot for the sustainability of humanity. It arouses us to images of resurrection and reconciliation, as well as images of plotting with nuclear terror, revelation and apocalypse and it had a Temple which once was a precursor of the suggested platform... 

In the meantime the distress of  Ehud Barak's political destiny arouses the f=feelings as a lesser challenge. He personally need his feeling to guide himself towards his §3-fulfillment rather than trying to maintain his power at all cost. As many times before, Rabbi Ovadia has prepared an extraordinary challenge for  Israeli politics; forcing it to cope with the internal anger and the external hate, which he has aroused. It is not enough for Ehud Barak to call his remarks unworthy; he should have faced the underlying challenge or somebody else will, at the loss of his power and more! And sure enough Sharon touched the trigger...

The unresolved inner contradictions in the Israeli-Arab relationship, in which all parties concerned need to try to do something together, something which no partner has achieved in his own camp, first of all requires  !=overcoming the prevailing c3-thinking catastrophe! Only if this challenge is seen as the bottleneck for humanity and as the bottleneck to be faced urgently with TOP PRIORITY can we not fall into the abyss of the alternative which some imagine may be called the last battle of Armageddon.                  

Bill Clinton, with his cheerful polishing up of his J=self-justification as a 7=facilitator for Be=the establishment of more appropriate boundary conditions has qualified himself beyond his presidency as the coach for the Jerusalem Platform to be set up with Timely Exchange of Project-Orientated Competence, TEPOC© in order to go beyond the traditional c3-roles and power positions. His ability to !=overcome outdated forms and roles by adapting to new projects in which he can insist that the necessary risks are taken gives rise to hope that he will §3-fulfill his life with more worthwhile risks than were available with  Monica Lewinsky  and it might well be shown, what meaning all the ramifications of that episode in his life really has; shaping him up for his real job after the one he insisted on getting in the previous part of his life.