Editing Israeli–Palestinian conflict (section)

=== Developments following Camp David ===
{{Main|The Clinton Parameters}}
[[File:Graffiti on the Bethlehem wall 05.jpg|thumb|[[Israeli West Bank barrier]] in [[Bethlehem]]]]

Following the failed summit Palestinian and Israeli negotiators continued to meet in small groups through August and September 2000 to try to bridge the gaps between their respective positions. The United States prepared its own plan to resolve the outstanding issues. Clinton's presentation of the US proposals was delayed by the advent of the [[Second Intifada]] at the end of September.<ref name=JPressman/>

Clinton's plan, eventually presented on 23 December 2000, proposed the establishment of a sovereign Palestinian state in the Gaza Strip and 94–96 percent of the West Bank plus the equivalent of 1–3 percent of the West Bank in land swaps from pre-1967 Israel. On Jerusalem, the plan stated that "the general principle is that Arab areas are Palestinian and that Jewish areas are Israeli." The holy sites were to be split on the basis that Palestinians would have sovereignty over the Temple Mount/Noble sanctuary, while the Israelis would have sovereignty over the Western Wall. On refugees the plan suggested a number of proposals including financial compensation, the right of return to the Palestinian state, and Israeli acknowledgment of suffering caused to the Palestinians in 1948. Security proposals referred to a "non-militarized" Palestinian state, and an international force for border security. Both sides accepted Clinton's plan<ref name=JPressman/><ref name=USEmbassy>{{cite web|title=Excerpts: State Dept; Spokesman on Mideast Peace Prospects (Both sides accept Clinton's parameters with reservations) |url=http://www.usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/peace/archives/2001/january/me0103b.html |publisher=Embassy of the United States, Israel |access-date=3 June 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110721145451/http://www.usembassy-israel.org.il/publish/peace/archives/2001/january/me0103b.html |archive-date=21 July 2011}}</ref><ref name=NYTsCP>{{cite news |last=Wren |first=Christopher |title=Renewed Hope for Peace Talks as Arafat Returns to Mideast |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/03/world/03CND-MIDEAST.html |access-date=3 June 2012 |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=3 January 2001 |archive-date=20 September 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120920143125/http://www.nytimes.com/2001/01/03/world/03CND-MIDEAST.html |url-status=live}}</ref> and it became the basis for the negotiations at the Taba Peace summit the following January.<ref name=JPressman/>