Editing 2000 Camp David Summit (section)

===Accusations of Palestinian responsibility===
Most of the Israeli and American criticism for the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit was leveled at Arafat.<ref name=Pressman_Lost>Jeremy Pressman, 1 December 2004, [http://www.bostonreview.net/jeremy-pressman-lost-opportunities-israel-palestine ''Lost Opportunities'']; Boston Review: Dennis Ross, ''The Missing Peace''</ref><ref name="Eran">Eran, Oded.  "Arab-Israel Peacemaking." ''The Continuum Political Encyclopedia of the Middle East''.  Ed. [[Avraham Sela]].  New York: Continuum, 2002. p. 145.</ref> Ehud Barak portrays Arafat's behavior at Camp David as a "performance geared to exact as many Israeli concessions as possible without ever seriously intending to reach a peace settlement or sign an "end to the conflict".<ref name=Barak-interview_Morris/>

Clinton blamed Arafat after the failure of the talks, stating, "I regret that in 2000 Arafat missed the opportunity to bring that nation into being and pray for the day when the dreams of the Palestinian people for a state and a better life will be realized in a just and lasting peace." The failure to come to an agreement was widely attributed to [[Yasser Arafat]], as he walked away from the table without making a concrete counter-offer and because Arafat did little to quell the [[al-Aqsa Intifada|series of Palestinian riots]] that began shortly after the summit.<ref name="Eran"/><ref name="Levin">Kenneth Levin (2005), p. 422.</ref><ref>Segal, Jerome M. [http://www.peacelobby.org/HaaretzOctober1001.htm "Ha'aretz – 1 October 2001."] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040118192757/http://www.peacelobby.org/HaaretzOctober1001.htm |date=18 January 2004 }} ''The Jewish Peace Lobby''. 1 October 2001.</ref> Arafat was also accused of scuttling the talks by [[Nabil Amr]], a former minister in the [[Palestinian Authority]].<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2002/sept/sept02.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030210143652/http://www.amin.org/eng/uncat/2002/sept/sept02.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=10 February 2003| title=Legitimacy Demands Leadership| publisher=Arabic Media Internet Network| date=10 February 2003| first=Nabil | last=Amr}}</ref> In ''[[My Life (Bill Clinton autobiography)|My Life]]'', Clinton wrote that Arafat once complimented Clinton by telling him, "You are a great man." Clinton responded, "I am not a great man. I am a failure, and you made me one."<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |last=Shyovitz |first=David |url=https://www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org/jsource/Peace/cd2000art.html |title=Camp David 2000  |encyclopedia=[[Jewish Virtual Library]]}}</ref>

[[Dennis Ross]], the US Middle East envoy and a key negotiator at the summit, summarized his perspectives in his book ''[[The Missing Peace (book)|The Missing Peace]]''. During a lecture in Australia, Ross suggested that the reason for the failure was Arafat's unwillingness to sign a final deal with Israel that would close the door on any of the Palestinians' maximum demands, particularly the [[right of return]]. Ross claimed that what Arafat really wanted was "a one-state solution. Not independent, adjacent Israeli and Palestinian states, but a single Arab state encompassing all of Historic Palestine".<ref>[[Michael Ross (Mossad officer)|Ross, Michael]] – ''The Volunteer'' (2007)</ref> Ross also quoted Saudi Prince [[Bandar bin Sultan|Bandar]] as saying while negotiations were taking place: "If Arafat does not accept what is available now, it won't be a tragedy; it will be a crime."<ref>{{cite book |last=Landau |first=David |title=Arik: The Life of Ariel Sharon |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PWAxAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT452|publisher=Random House |year=2014 |isbn=978-1-4000-4241-8}}</ref>

In his book, ''[[The Oslo Syndrome]]'', [[Harvard Medical School]] professor of psychiatry and historian<ref>Alexander, Edward. [http://www.meforum.org/article/962 "Review of The Oslo Syndrome: Delusions of a People Under Siege."] ''[[Middle East Forum]]''. Spring 2006.</ref> Kenneth Levin summarized the failure of the 2000 Camp David Summit in this manner: "despite the dimensions of the Israeli offer and intense pressure from President Clinton, Arafat demurred.  He apparently was indeed unwilling, no matter what the Israeli concessions, to sign an agreement that declared itself final and forswore any further Palestinian claims."<ref name="Levin" /> Levin argues that both the Israelis and the Americans were naive in expecting that Arafat would agree to give up the idea of a literal "right of return" for all Palestinians into Israel proper no matter how many 1948 refugees or how much monetary compensation Israel offered.

[[Alan Dershowitz]], an Israel advocate and a law professor at [[Harvard University]], said that the failure of the negotiations was due to "the refusal of the Palestinians and Arafat to give up the right of return. That was the sticking point.  It wasn't Jerusalem.  It wasn't borders. It was the right of return." He claimed that President Clinton told this to him "directly and personally."<ref>[[Dershowitz, Alan]].  Interview. [http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/12/23/1450216 "Noam Chomsky v. Alan Dershowitz: A Debate on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict."] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070509173409/http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05%2F12%2F23%2F1450216 |date=9 May 2007 }} ''[[Democracy Now!]]''.  23 December 2005.</ref>