POLI 347 Chapter Notes - Chapter MALLEY AND AGHA: Israeli Settlement, Palestinian Security Services, East Jerusalem
19 Dec 2018
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Notes on malley & agha - camp david: the tragedy of errors. Conventional view about the july 2000 camp david summit = ehud made an unprecedented and generous offer and yasser arafat answer was an uncompromising. No : arafat rejected the settlement put forward by clinton on december 23, five months after the camp david talks ended, once again the palestinians missed yet another opportunity to seize a peace deal. But article argues that there was never an israeli deal to begin with. Impact of no surprise rule = helped convince palestinians that an us idea was actually an israeli idea, and decreased the palestinians" confidence in clinton, us credibility, and america"s ability to exercise effective pressure. Early atmosphere of distrust between arafat and barak so the more pressure. Both leaders want the same thing: permanent status negotiations but unlike barak, arafat didn"t want to do away with interim obligations.
