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STALEMATE A summit at Camp David with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak fails...
...some ways, it was Arafat's choice to close his story as he did. At the Camp David peace talks brokered by President Bill Clinton in 2000, negotiators for Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, who was determined to make a final deal ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict for good, put forward compromises more generous than any Israeli leader had offered before. But rather than consider them or offer counterproposals, Arafat threw up a stone wall of rejection, prompting Clinton to publicly blame him for the failure of the summit. Two months later, when Palestinian riots in Jerusalem expanded into...
...summoned the parties to Camp David for final status talks. Their failure was a surprise to no one following events closely at the time; Arafat had made clear that he was not ready for final talks before the last land transfer, but Clinton and Israel's Prime Minister Ehud Barak insisted they go ahead. Arafat suddenly found himself trapped between the pressures of his own base and of the wider Arab world, on the one hand, and his negotiating partners on the other. And when he failed to engage seriously with Barak's territorial offer at the talks...
...other shifts were afoot, to which Arafat appeared dangerously oblivious. Ariel Sharon was doing his utmost to scupper the deal; his grandstanding walkabout on the Temple Mount, the most sensitive piece of real estate in Jerusalem, was designed to challenge Barak's right to negotiate over its future. The action provoked young Palestinians into a series of riots that resulted in fatalities, and seven years of frustration among Arafat's base reached a boiling point. Numb to the dangers of a new round of confrontations, the Palestinian leader instead sensed an opportunity: Even though the new intifada was a rebellion...
...Oslo process, requires Israeli withdrawal from territories occupied in 1967, and negotiations with the Palestinians over a two-state solution have until now been based on a return to 1967 borders, or modifying them by mutual consent. The outline agreement achieved in the final days of Ehud Barak's administration in talks with Palestinian representatives at Taba remains the furthest the two sides have come to achieving an agreement over borders. It recognized the 1967 lines as the basis for talks, suggesting that Israel could incorporate the large settlement blocs around Jerusalem if it compensated the Palestinians with land...