Clinton-Barak Israeli-Palestinian Peace offers

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

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. Benny Morris, Ehud Barak, Dennis Ross, Clinton who believe that Arafat was offered a reasonable proposal & should have accepted.
  2. Hussein Agha, Robert Malley, Carter, Chomsky, Clayton E. Swisher 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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