Editing 2000 Camp David Summit (section)

==Summit==
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U.S. President [[Bill Clinton]] announced his invitation to Israeli Prime Minister [[Ehud Barak]] and [[Yasser Arafat]] on 5 July 2000, to come to Camp David, [[Maryland]], in order to continue their negotiations on the [[Middle East peace process]]. There was a hopeful precedent in the [[Camp David Accords (1978)|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]]. The [[Oslo Accords]] of 1993 between the later assassinated Israeli Prime Minister [[Yitzhak Rabin]] and [[Palestine Liberation Organization]] Chairman Yasser Arafat had provided that agreement should be reached on all outstanding issues between the Palestinians and Israeli sides – the so-called final status settlement – within five years of the implementation of [[State of Palestine|Palestinian autonomy]]. However, the interim process put in place under Oslo had fulfilled neither Israeli nor Palestinian expectations.

On 11 July, the Camp David 2000 Summit convened, although the Palestinians considered the summit premature.<ref name=Hanieh>Akram Hanieh, [http://www.palestine-studies.com/files/pdf/jps/2759.pdf ''The Camp David Papers''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140114012447/http://www.palestine-studies.com/files/pdf/jps/2759.pdf |date=14 January 2014 }}. Articles, published in ''al-Ayyam''  in seven installments between 29 July and 10 August 2000.  Journal of Palestine Studies XXX, no. 2 (Winter 2001), pp. 75-97.</ref> They even saw it as a "trap"<ref name=Kapeliouk>Amnon Kapeliouk, [http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/a-summit-clouded-by-suspicion-1.75548 ''A summit clouded by suspicion'']; Haaretz, 23 November 2001.</ref> – meaning either they would be pressured into agreeing to Israeli demands, or they would be blamed for the summit's failure.{{sfn|Peters|2013|p=75}} Many sources have said the Summit was rushed. Dan Kurtzer and Scott Lasensky wrote that American diplomats "scrambled at the last minute to put together U.S. positions on complex issues such as Jerusalem and borders."{{sfn|Peters|2013|p=76}} Israeli diplomat [[Gilead Sher]] would later write, "the most serious shortcoming of the American team was that some of its members appeared to be less knowledgeable than the president in the details and implications of the process."{{sfn|Peters|2013|p=77}} And [[Yasser Abed Rabbo]], member of the Palestinian negotiating team, recalled "It was chaos. Every day a different meeting, committee and issue. We didn’t know what were our aims, to succeed, to fail, to escape."{{sfn|Peters|2013|p=77}}

The summit ended on 25 July, without an agreement being reached. At its conclusion, a Trilateral Statement was issued defining the agreed principles to guide future negotiations.<ref name="tri">{{cite web |url=http://2001-2009.state.gov/p/nea/rls/22698.htm |title=Trilateral Statement on the Middle East Peace Summit at Camp David |date=25 July 2000 |publisher=US Department of State}}</ref>