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	Camp David - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Camp David is part of the Catoctin Mountain Park recreational area in Frederick County, Maryland, outside Washington, DC (39°38′50″N, 77°27′53″W).
		A third camp, Camp Hi-Catoctin, was completed in the winter of 1938-1939 and was used for three years as a family camp for federal employees.
		In 2000 there were also the talks that led to the Roadmap for Peace on the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict at the summit meeting between U.S. President Bill Clinton, PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak known as the Camp David 2000 Summit or "Camp David II."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camp_David (953 words)

	Camp David 2000 Summit - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		President Clinton announced his invitation to Barak and Arafat on July 5, 2000, to come to Camp David to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process.
		Building on the positive steps towards peace of the earlier 1978 Camp David Accords where President Jimmy Carter was able to broker a peace agreement between Egypt, represented by President Anwar Sadat, and Israel represented by Prime Minister Menachem Begin.
		Soon after the collapse of the 2000 summit, Ariel Sharon and a delegation of Likud politicians took a tour of the Temple Mount to demonstrate the right of Jews to visit a site that remains holy to Judaism, though still religiously Islamic.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Camp_David_2000_Summit (1978 words)

	Encyclopedia Search
		David, Maryland, is the U.S. Presidential retreat....recreational area.
		David has also often been used for formal and informal discussion between...
		David to continue their negotiations on the Middle East peace process....
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	Camp David, 2000
		Talks during late 1999 and the first half of 2000 led to President Clinton's invitation to Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Yasser Arafat for a summit at Camp David, Maryland to be convened July 11, 2000.
		It was not the specific terms that caused the summit to collapse, but rather the lack of a counterproposal.
		During the fall of 2000, with the al-Aqsa intifada raging, there were several more attempts to follow-up on the Camp David negotiations, in Washington and Taba, Egypt in January 2001.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_campdavid_2000.php (899 words)

	Online NewsHour: Middle East Summit at Camp David -- July 6, 2000
		JIM LEHRER: The Camp David summit: Edward Djerejian was Assistant Secretary of State for Near Eastern Affairs in the Bush administration, and has served as ambassador to Israel and Syria.
		summit because I don't think this is a summit that has been prepared in a manner in which the substantive gaps between the Israelis and the Palestinians have been sufficiently narrowed whereby you can assume a great chance of success.
		So for this summit for the coming week, they are still keeping their options, cards close to the chest and they are not revealing any positions.
	www.pbs.org /newshour/bb/middle_east/july-dec00/summit_7-6.html (2278 words)

	Camp David 2000
		The Camp David summit took place from July 11-24, 2000, at the presidential retreat in Camp David, MD. Attending were President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and PA Chairman Yasser Arafat.
		Abu Mazen, one of the lead Palestinian negotiators, said even before the summit the Palestinians ”made clear to the Americans that the Palestinian side is unable to make concessions on anything.“ He also maintained the whole process was some sort of trap.
		In September 2000, according to Ross, Arafat knew that the U.S. was preparing to present its ideas on the new conference, and thus ordered the new intifada.
	www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/Peace/cd2000art.html (1996 words)

	Camp David Accords (1978) : Camp David Accord (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		After twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations were concluded by the signing at the White House of two agreements.
		The first dealt with the future of the Sinai and peace between Israel and Egypt, to be concluded within three months.
		Camp David 2000 Summit between Palestinians and Israel
	www.explainthis.info /ca/camp-david-accord.html (338 words)

	The Jerusalem Fund
		Swisher found that U.S. officials involved in the Camp David talks were not prepared to mediate a summit that was expected to end decades of conflict.
		He found that instead of coming to Camp David with their own proposals, U.S. officials allowed the Israelis to influence the development of the only draft that was ever presented.
		In March 2000, after being told by his advisors that Barak had agreed to the principle of a withdrawal to the 1967 line, Clinton asked Saudi Arabia to invite Asad to a summit in Geneva.
	www.thejerusalemfund.org /images/fortherecord.php?ID=213 (900 words)

	Jerusalem in International Diplomacy: The 2000 Camp David Summit, the Clinton Plan, and their Aftermath, by Dore Gold
		Despite its loose diplomatic style, Camp David was predicated on the assumption, particularly among Israelis and Americans, that the gaps in the positions between the parties on all the issues, particularly Jerusalem, were indeed bridgeable.
		As a result, as Arafat, after Camp David, sought international support for a unilateral declaration of a Palestinian state, he discovered that major powers in the international system, including France, were not prepared to assure him that they would recognize a unilaterally declared Palestinian state.
		In May 2000, the Barak government authorized the transfer of Abu Dis from Area B status to Area A; it nonetheless made the transfer conditional upon the disarming of the Tanzim, which the Palestinian Authority failed to implement.
	www.jcpa.org /jl/vp447.htm (7748 words)

	CNN.com - Camp David summit to open with toughest issues unresolved - July 11, 2000
		In their summit with Clinton at the presidential Camp David retreat outside Washington, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority President Yasser Arafat will have an opportunity to resolve long-standing conflicts over refugees, borders, settlers and the status of Jerusalem.
		Clinton comes to the talks knowing that with seven months left in office, the summit may be his last chance to include a Mideast peace agreement in his presidential legacy.
		The summit may be his last chance to add a Mideast peace agreement to that legacy.
	edition.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/07/10/summit.advancer (971 words)

	Camp David Proposals for Final Palestine-Israel Peace Settlement
		Between July 11-24, 2000, U.S. President Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PNA Chairman Yasser Arafat, along with other officials and technical advisers met at Camp David in order to negotiate a final settlement of the Palestine-Israel conflict based on the Oslo accords.
		Prior to the Camp David Summit, a map was published that gives an idea of the Israeli concessions and the approximate areas involved.
		On September 17, 2000, according to an AP story, Palestinians announced that they would no longer accept any settlement that did not include all the territory of the West Bank, and would be granted sovereignty over East Jerusalem including the Haram As Sharif (Temple Mount).
	www.mideastweb.org /campdavid2.htm (1526 words)

	The Truth About Camp David by Jude Wanniski
		And I was at the Camp David summit, and it sort of planted a seed of interest.
		So Camp David, the proximate origins of blame and disengagements – in fact, Sharon's unilateral disengagement plans for Gaza all have their origin in President Clinton's decision to renege on his commitment to Arafat and the decision to levy a very one-sided account of why the Camp David 2000 summit did not result in accord.
		Well, in the first Camp David summit in 1978, between Israelis and Egyptians, you had a very methodical and structured process that was right when the parties had arrived, but also, it was a structure of drafting.
	www.lewrockwell.com /wanniski/wanniski36.html (2015 words)

	Camp David \| A History of the Presidential Retreat
		The camp was renamed the USS Shangri La, to follow up on the nautical connection, since many workers involved with the Potomac worked on the camp.
		President Jimmy Carter hosted the now famous Camp David Summit in 1978, between Egyptian President Anwar al-Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin, and resulted in what are now known as the Camp David Accords establishing peace between Egypt and Israel.
		While President Bill Clinton visited Camp David infrequently in the early days of his administration, he did hold a week-long retreat on management with incoming administration officials in 1993.
	www.infoplease.com /spot/campdavid1.html (844 words)

	Camp David Negotiations
		On the eve of the Camp David Summit June 21, 2000 then Justice Minister Yossi Beilin presented the document to the cabinet meeting of the Israeli government.
		The crucial turning point in Camp David was that Barak demanded that what is signed is the 'final agreement', accompanied with a Palestinian declaration of 'end of conflict'.
		The only undisputed fact about Barak's proposals in Camp David, is that the big settlement blocks in which 150 thousand of the settlers are concentrated will be annexed to Israel in the final agreement.
	www.tau.ac.il /~reinhart/books_ME/Camp_David_Negotiations.html (6469 words)

	MidEast Web Historical Documents: Summit
		In July 2000, American, Israeli and Palestinian leaders met at Camp David Maryland in an attempt to work out a compromise that would serve as the framework peace agreement for a final status agreement.
		During the summit, they had been subject to intensive pressures from extremists at home, who insisted that neither leader could make concessions on vital issues such as sovereignty over Jerusalem and the right of return of Palestinian refugees.
		The reference to "unilateral actions" in the statement was meant to discourage unilateral declaration of state by the Palestinians and unilateral annexation of areas of the West Bank and Gaza strip by Israel.
	www.mideastweb.org /Sum2000.htm (504 words)

	CNN Specials - Mideast Peace
		(CNN) -- The Camp David summit of July 2000 is the latest in a long line of attempts by Israelis and Palestinians to secure peace in the Middle East.
		The region -- bounded on the east by the Jordan River, on the west by the Mediterranean, on the north by Lebanon, and on the south by the Sinai Peninsula -- has been the scene of bitter struggles for millennia.
		The latest talks at Camp David aim to build on the foundations of the Wye Accord negotiated in Maryland in 1998 between Netanyahu and Arafat, with Clinton and an ailing King Hussein of Jordan acting as mediators.
	www.cnn.com /SPECIALS/2000/campdavid2000/story/overview (1569 words)

	Camp David Summit 2000
		The Camp David Summit was convened by U.S. President Bill Clinton on July 11, 2000, to bring together Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Chairman Arafat at Camp David for intensive negotiations for a final status agreement.
		Faced with criticism after abandoning the negotiations at Camp David and the turn to violence barely two months later, Palestinians publicly declared that the failure of Camp David was due to lack of preparation by the Americans, personality differences between Barak and Arafat, and by Barak's "take-it-or-leave-it" negotiating posture.
		Instead, Camp David demonstrated that Arafat and the Palestinian leadership had unrealistic expectations that they could force Israel to concede to their maximalist demands without making important compromises of their own.
	www.adl.org /israel/advocacy/glossary/camp_david_summit.asp (439 words)

	Camp David Summit 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		And whatever will be accomplished at this summit I hope it will bring an agreement -- if it won't bring to an agreement, at least to a higher level of understanding that whenever the next round will be we shall start with a better understanding of what are the possibilities between the two sides.
		Prime Minister, if you come back from Camp David with a agreement, as painful as it will be when it comes to the practical implementation of it, but if you come with a distinctly fair one, I can promise you the support of the Knesset.
		I hope there at Camp David, they will be creative enough and pragmatical enough to leave rhetorics aside and to find solutions for us that we should both adopt.
	www.israelemb.org /summit-camp_david/burg_2000071100.html (964 words)

	Amazon.ca: The Truth about Camp David: The Untold Story about Arafat, Barak, Clinton, and the Collapse of the Middle ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the creation of a new myth.
		Syrian and Palestinian intransigence was blamed for the current disastrous state of affairs, as both parties rejected a "generous" peace offering from the Israelis that would have brought peace to the region.
		The Truth About Camp David details the tragic inner workings of the Clinton Administration's negotiating mayhem, their eleventh hour blunders and miscalculations, and their concluding decision to end the Oslo process with blame and disengagement.
	www.amazon.ca /Truth-about-Camp-David-Collapse/dp/1560256230 (347 words)

	CNN.com - World - Camp David summit continues into the morning - July 18, 2000
		CAMP DAVID, Maryland (CNN) -- With time apparently running out, Israeli and Palestinian negotiators talked into the morning Tuesday to try to resolve key differences blocking agreement on a lasting Mideast peace.
		U.S. President Bill Clinton is scheduled to leave the Camp David talks Wednesday morning for Okinawa, Japan, for a meeting of the world's leading industrial nations.
		Although he insisted early on that all parties would not comment during the summit, Clinton broke his silence Sunday in a telephone interview with The New York Daily News.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/07/18/mideast.summit/index.html (954 words)

	CNN.com - World - Tough Mideast talks continue at Camp David - July 19, 2000
		CAMP DAVID, Maryland (CNN) -- The Mideast peace summit at Camp David stretched into overtime tonight, with "very intensive discussions" going on between President Bill Clinton, Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat.
		Two other key issues still to be resolved are the Palestinian demand that Israel acknowledge responsibility for the displacement of Palestinians in 1948 and 1967 as well as Barak's demand for an "end of conflict" statement from the Palestinians that the Israelis and Palestinians are finally at peace.
		The letter was addressed to Clinton, Barak and Arafat at the summit near Washington.
	archives.cnn.com /2000/WORLD/meast/07/19/mideast.summit.04/index.html (1492 words)

	Peace Process Talks, 2000
		During late 1999 and the early months of 2000, three way talks (Israel, Palestinians, with the US as facilitator) were held by working-level teams to create the necessary preparations for the Oslo Peace Process "final status" negotiations.
		The goal was to complete a framework agreement by May, and to conclude the permanent status agreement by September 13, 2000 as agreed in the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum.
		Despite many problems and delays, the working level meetings succeeded well enough to lead to the Camp David 2000 Summit convened on July 11, 2000.
	www.palestinefacts.org /pf_1991to_now_intensivetalks_2000.php (372 words)

	Camp David Summit 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		I would like to take this opportunity, on the eve of the summit, to address the Palestinian leadership and people and ask them to clear the air of accusations, threats and gloomy prophecies, and to rise to the greatness of the hour.
		We want good neighborly relations with you based on respect and liberty, on broad coordination, on shared interests, and on a separation that will allow you and us to maintain independent identities, development and free choice.
		And I look forward to Yasser Arafat coming to Camp David with the full backing of the Palestinian people to achieve a historic peace.
	www.israelemb.org /summit-camp_david/homepage.html (1206 words)

	Salon.com News \| When doves cry
		While many observers agree that the Camp David summit created progress in the talks, opinions are split over which side can or should budge on key points.
		Salon News gathered opinions on the impact of the summit from all sides of the debate.
		Rabbi David Saperstein is director of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism in Washington.
	www.salon.com /news/feature/2000/07/26/camp_david/index.html (842 words)

	Salon.com Politics \| Clinton's lust for legacy
		It is Clinton's full understanding of Israel's security needs, which he also demonstrated at the Wye, Md., summit in October 1998, that brought Barak to Camp David II.
		Choosing Camp David as the meeting grounds is more akin to rubbing a ceramic Buddha's belly and praying for luck than a grandstand display of presidential hubris.
		At one juncture in 1978, for example, the determined Carter physically blocked a doorway at Camp David and refused to let Begin leave the compound.
	archive.salon.com /politics/feature/2000/07/18/camp_david/index1.html (785 words)

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