Clinton-Barak Israeli-Palestinian Peace offers

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This page is to explore the theory that Arafat was offered a reasonable proposal and should have accepted it at the Camp David & Taba talks in 2000-2001. In doing so this page will try to prove/disprove the following assertions:

Jimmy Carter said, in Palestine:Peace Not Apartheid:

The best offer to the Palestinians [from Camp David] - by Clinton, not Barak - had been to withdraw 20 percent of the settlers, leaving more than 180,000 in 209 settlements, covering about 10 percent of the occupied land, including land to be "leased" and portions of the Jordan River valley and East Jerusalem. The percentage figure is misleading, since it usually includes only the actual footprints of the settlements ... the West Bank into at least two noncontiguous areas and multiple fragments ... [no] Palestinian leader could accept such terms and survive...

Alan Dershowitz said, in The World According to Carter:

Carter blames Israel, and exonerates Arafat, for the Palestinian refusal to accept statehood on 95% of the West Bank and all of Gaza pursuant to the Clinton-Barak offers of Camp David and Taba in 2000-2001. He accepts the Palestinian revisionist history, rejects the eye-witness accounts of President Clinton and Dennis Ross and ignores Saudi Prince Bandar’s accusation that Arafat’s rejection of the proposal was “a crime” and that Arafat’s account “was not truthful” – except, apparently, to Carter. The fact that Carter chooses to believe Yassir Arafat over Bill Clinton speaks volumes.

This is a dense topic. Seemingly there are two sides on these events:

  1. Bill Clinton, Ehud Barak, Dennis Ross, Benny Morris, Alan Dershowitz who believe that Arafat was offered a reasonable proposal & should have accepted.
  2. Jimmy Carter, Arafat, Clayton E. Swisher, Robert Malley, Hussein Agha, Noam Chomsky who believe it was not a reasonable offer and rightly rejected by Arafat.

see Wikipedia: Camp David 2000 Summit

Two books concerning these events directly:

  • The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process by Clayton E. Swisher
  • The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace by Dennis Ross

Debate in the New York Review of Books over what occured:

Audio commentary:

Other sites:

MAPS:

  • Projections of the Israeli offer at Camp David, the Israeli offer to Palestinians in December 2000,

the Bridging Proposal of US President Clinton and the Israeli Offer of January 2001: http://www.mideastweb.org/lastmaps.htm

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