2000 Camp David Summit

U.S. President Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat at Camp David, July 2000

The 2000 Camp David Summit was a summit meeting at Camp David between United States president Bill Clinton, Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority chairman Yasser Arafat. The summit took place between 11 and 25 July 2000 and was an effort to end the Israeli–Palestinian conflict. The summit ended without an agreement, largely due to irreconcilable differences between Israelis and Palestinians on the status of Jerusalem.[1] Its failure is considered one of the main triggers of the Second Intifada.

Reports of the outcome of the summit have been described as illustrating the Rashomon effect, in which the multiple witnesses gave contradictory and self-serving interpretations.[2][3][4][5]

  1. ^ Filiu (2014). Gaza: A History. p. 251.
  2. ^ Kacowicz, Arie M. (2005). "Rashomon in the Middle East: Clashing Narratives, Images, and Frames in the Israeli–Palestinian Conflict". Cooperation and Conflict. 40 (3): 343–360. doi:10.1177/0010836705055069. JSTOR 45084335.
  3. ^ Aronoff, Myron J. (2009). "Camp David Rashomon: Contested Interpretations of the Israel/Palestine Peace Process". Political Science Quarterly. 124: 143–167. doi:10.1002/j.1538-165X.2009.tb00645.x.
  4. ^ Shamir, S. (2005). The Enigma of Camp David. The Camp David Summit-What Went Wrong: "...manifestation of the Rashomon syndrome..."
  5. ^ Russell L. Riley (1 September 2016). Inside the Clinton White House: An Oral History. Oxford University Press. p. 253. ISBN 978-0-19-060547-6. Camp David is a bit of a Rashomon event. There is the American Camp David, there is the Palestinian Camp David, and there is the Israeli Camp David