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\"The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed...but in conceding failure, President Clinton said Israeli and Palestinian negotiators 'made real headway' toward a future settlement.\" (THE SEATTLE TIMES) Learn why these talks failed and which issues were central to the debate.

\"In the wee hours of the morning, faced with the imminent collapse of their peace negotiations, Israeli leader Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat suddenly realized how hard it would be for them to go home empty-handed.\" (SAN JOSE MERCURY NEWS) Learn what might happen if these two leaders return home without an agreement. The last hours before U.S President Clinton's departure from the peace talks are described.

\"The war lasted less than a week. But the six days of fighting that began on June 5, 1967, between Israel and the Arab nations of Egypt, Syria, Jordan, and Iraq had dramatic consequences for the Middle East and the rest of the world. Israel more than tripled the territories under its control, igniting a bloody dispute over some of that land that continues today.\" (New York Times Upfront) Read more about the consequences of this war and its impact on Arab-Israeli relations. A timeline is included.

\"Much of today's conflict between Israel and the Palestinians stems from a war 40 years ago that lasted less than a week. Even by Middle East standards, the spring of 1967 was a tense time. Israel was periodically being attacked by Palestinian guerrillas in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, territories controlled by Egypt and Jordan respectively, and Syrian troops were lobbing artillery fire from the Golan Heights.\" (New York Times Upfront) Learn how Israel tripled the amount of land under its control in less than six days. Read more about the 1967 victory that resulted in more violence. Background information and quizzes are included.

Focusing on one historic but unsuccessful effort to achieve peace in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, the 2000 Camp David summit, this paper presents a systematic framework for future analyses of the conflict. An analysis of the failure of the Camp David summit enables us to spotlight some of the deep-seated essential problems of war and peace in the Middle East. An inquiry into the substance of the summit reveals how, all in all, the conflict is based on six major issues: (1) the establishment of a Palestinian state, (2) the location of land for the Palestinian state, (3) the evacuation of Israeli settlements, (4) the partition of Jerusalem, (5) Palestinian custodianship over the Temple Mount, and (6) the refugee problem. Emphasizing the importance of national ethos, this paper defines the above mentioned six major issues in dispute that constitute the Israeli-Palestinian conflict by viewing them through the eyes of each of the rival parties. This article explains the causes of the conflict, relying on national forms of ethos that are rooted in narratives and collective identity. By establishing a profound comprehension of each of the six topics, this paper also creates the platform for possible future analyses of the conflict.

This article, excerpted from a longer essay deconstructing Dennis Ross's book on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process from 1993 to 2000, focuses on the Camp David summit. In particular, it examines the assumptions informing Ross's account of what happened during the negotiations and why, and the distortions that spring from these assumptions. The article demonstrates that, judged from the perspective of Palestinians' and Israelis' respective rights under international law, all the concessions at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side. In reflecting on Ross's narrative, the author explores what he considers its \"main innovation\": the subordination of the normative framework of rights to the arbitrary and capricious one of \"needs.\" [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]