Editing Israeli–Palestinian conflict (section)

=== Taba Summit (2001) ===
{{Main|Taba Summit}}

The Israeli negotiation team presented a new map at the [[Taba Summit]] in [[Taba (Egypt)|Taba, Egypt]], in January 2001. The proposition removed the "temporarily Israeli controlled" areas, and the Palestinian side accepted this as a basis for further negotiation. With Israeli elections looming the talks ended without an agreement but the two sides issued a joint statement attesting to the progress they had made: "The sides declare that they have never been closer to reaching an agreement and it is thus our shared belief that the remaining gaps could be bridged with the resumption of negotiations following the Israeli elections." The following month the [[Likud]] party candidate [[Ariel Sharon]] defeated Ehud Barak in the Israeli elections and was elected as Israeli prime minister on 7 February 2001. Sharon's new government chose not to resume the high-level talks.<ref name=JPressman/>