Written by Tim Youngs and recently published by the UK House of Commons Library, this research paper offer a succinct and very useful account of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process from 1991. It gives historical background and covers events from the 1991 Madrid Conference up to the July 2000 Camp David negotiations. It also discusses relations with Syria and Lebanon and includes eight...

After several days of intense wrangling, Israeli and Palestinian officials have announced that they have cleared the last major obstacle in the way of signing a revised Wye River peace accord and resuming formal peace negotiations. The dispute was over the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released. Palestinian negotiators demanded the release of some 400 prisoners, who are regarded as heroes...

This morning, the Mideast Peace talks at Camp David collapsed. At 10am, the White House announced that the Summit had ended without an agreement. The President was flying back to the White House to make an announcement as this report went to post. The talks broke down over the same stumbling block that had been evident throughout the fifteen days of negotiation -- the status of East Jerusalem....

Written by Tim Youngs and recently published by the UK House of Commons Library, this research paper offer a succinct and very useful account of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process from 2000 through January 2001. The paper continues the negotiations narrative from the summer of 2000 through January of 2001. It explores the outstanding issues at the Camp David summit, the outbreak of...