Camp David Shuttle Diplomacy

ARAB-ISRAELI CONFLICT: SHUTTLE DIPLOMACY THROUGH CAMP DAVID II

This research reviews negations conducted over the past three decades that had as their central objective development of an effective and lasting accord to bring peace between (a) the Israelis and Palestinians in a narrow context and (b) Israel and Islamic Middle Eastern nation states in a wider context. The scope of the review in this paper extends from the first Camp David negotiations conducted during the Carter Administration through the Camp David II negotiations conducted during the Clinton Administration.

The four primary negotiations were (a) the Camp David Accord in 1979, (b) the Declaration of Principles in 1993 (the Oslo Agreement), (c) the Wye Plantation Agreement in 1998, and the Camp David II Accord in 2000. The Camp David Accord was a negotiated set of principles that provided the framework for the negotiation of a peace treaty between Egypt and Israel (Spiegel 180). The Declaration of Principles was a negotiated agreement on the principles in 1993 that were intended to provide a framework within which Israel and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) could conclude a peace agreement (Feith 32). The Wye Plantation Agreement established a framework for the transfer of more land and autonomy from Israel to the Palestinians in return for a security guarantee from the Palestinians (Bishara 1). The Camp David II negotiations were an effort promoted by United States President Clinton to move the

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