The Contemporary Middle East. A Documentary History

DOCUMENT Clinton Speech on Camp David to the Israel Policy Forum JANUARY7, 2001 ... For over 3 months, we have lived through a t ...

Fourth, talks must be accompanied by acts—acts which show trust and partner- ship. For good will at the negotiating table cannot ...

Camp David was a transformative event, because the two sides faced the core issue of their dispute in a forum that was official ...

settlement blocks as compact as possible, because of where a lot of these refugees came from. We cannot expect Israel to make a ...

The parties’ experience with interim accords has not always been happy—too many deadlines missed, too many commitments unfulfill ...

no longer make defense primarily a matter of geography and of politics; and the human feeling and the interdependence and the co ...

ration in the United States of a new administration leery of getting involved in the Middle East, and the election in February 2 ...

Sharon sent the army into West Bank cities and barred thousands of Palestinians from traveling to their jobs in Israel. In Decem ...

day as a result of living with the continuing effects of occupation, sustained by the presence of Israeli military forces and se ...

In this report, we will try to answer the questions assigned to us by the Sharm el- Sheikh summit: What happened? Why did it hap ...

From the perspective of the GOI, the demonstrations were organized and directed by the Palestinian leadership to create sympathy ...

Divergent Expectations We are struck by the divergent expectations expressed by the parties relating to the implementation of th ...

The Palestinian Perspective For the Palestinian side, “Madrid” and “Oslo” heralded the prospect of a State, and guaranteed an en ...

Security, however, is the key GOI concern. The GOI maintains that the PLO has breached its solemn commitments by continuing the ...

security measures combined with ongoing, fruitful negotiations. We also acknowl- edge the PA’s fear that, with security cooperat ...

Ensure that the stated values and standard operating procedures of the IDF effec- tively instill the duty of caring for Palestin ...

they must, in our view, manifest a spirit of compromise, reconciliation and partner- ship, notwithstanding the events of the pas ...

Palestinian conflict. The Quartet developed a step-by-step “performance-based roadmap for peace.” At the request of Israeli prim ...

The road map went off track on August 19, when a Palestinian suicide bomber attacked a bus in Jerusalem, killing twenty Israelis ...

A settlement, negotiated between the parties, will result in the emergence of an independent, democratic, and viable Palestinian ...