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Peace Process Hypocrisy: Stillborn from Inception

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Israel controlled the Territories, occupying today over 40% of the West Bank with expanding settlements, by-pass roads, the Separation Wall, military areas, no-go zones, nature reserves, and hundreds of checkpoints and barriers, excluding Palestinians from their own land, thus effectively in charge of all parts they inhabit.


In September 1999, the Sharm el-Sheikh Memorandum was next - implementing Oslo II and other post-Oslo I agreements, including:


(1) a 1994 Protocol on Economic Relations favoring Israel;


(2) a Cairo Agreement on Gaza and the Jericho Area the same year;


(3) the 1994 Washington Declaration and Agreement on Preparatory Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities between the two parties; and


(4) the 1995 Protocol on Further Transfer of Powers and Responsibilities.


Both sides agreed to resume permanent status talks and discuss other peace elements relating to Israeli troop redeployments, land transfers, safe passage openings between Gaza and the West Bank, a Gaza seaport, prisoner releases, other security related issues, normal civilian life activities, international donor aid, and a timetable for final status talks on the toughest issues.


In July 2000, Bill Clinton hosted Arafat and Prime Minister Ehud Barak at Camp David, again delivering rejectionism. Barak insisted Arafat sign a "final agreement," declare an "end of conflict," relinquish all legal claims for additional land, but offered nothing in return. There was no written offer, no documents, and no maps, just a May 2000 one dividing the West Bank into four isolated cantons under Palestinian administration, surrounded by expanding settlements and other Israeli controlled land.


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