The Camp David II Negotiations: How Dennis Ross Proved the Palestinians Aborted the Peace Process

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" The Camp David II Negotiations: How Dennis Ross Proved the Palestinians Aborted the Peace Process "
N. G. Finkelstein

Document Type	:	AL
Record Number	:	818722
Doc. No	:	LA97578
Call No	:	‭10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.39‬
Language of Document	:	English
Main Entry	:	N. G. Finkelstein
Title & Author	:	The Camp David II Negotiations: How Dennis Ross Proved the Palestinians Aborted the Peace Process [Article]\ N. G. Finkelstein
Title of Periodical	:	Journal of Palestine Studies
Date	:	2007
Volume/ Issue Number	:	36/2
Page No	:	39-53
Abstract	:	This article, excerpted from a longer essay deconstructing Dennis Ross's book on the Palestinian-Israeli peace process from 1993 to 2000, focuses on the Camp David summit. In particular, it examines the assumptions informing Ross's account of what happened during the negotiations and why, and the distortions that spring from these assumptions. The article demonstrates that, judged from the perspective of Palestinians' and Israelis' respective rights under international law, all the concessions at Camp David came from the Palestinian side, none from the Israeli side. In reflecting on Ross's narrative, the author explores what he considers its “main innovation”: the subordination of the normative framework of rights to the arbitrary and capricious one of “needs.”
Location & Call number	:	‭10.1525/jps.2007.36.2.39‬