Prophets without Honor

Introduction; Part I - The Camp David Process; Chapter 1. First Steps, Harsh Truths; Chapter 2. A Secluded Northern Castle; Chapter 3. Back to Square One; Chapter 4. The Jordan Valley on the Agenda; Chapter 5. Pre-Summit at Andrews; Chapter 6. A Conceivable Endgame?; Chapter 7. The (Unfulfilled) Promise of an American Steamroller; Chapter 8. Misguided Beginnings; Chapter 9. Clinton: We Have Exhausted the Beauty of this Place; Chapter 10. A Gamechanger (or so It Looked..); Chapter 11. O Jerusalem (and Its Lies); Chapter 12. Arafat is Interested in a Crisis; Chapter 13. Albright's Intermezzo: Clinton's Last Push; Chapter 14. Our Faintest Hour; Chapter 15. Arafat: Barak Has Gone Beyond my Partner Rabin; Chapter 16. Making Most of Success; Chapter 17. Moments of Grace at Precipice Edge; Chapter 18. With Our Blood and Soul We'll Redeem Palestine; Chapter 19. A Savage War for Peace?; Chapter 20. Trapped in No-Win Conditions; Chapter 21. Unable to Either Inspire or Intimidate; Chapter 22. Arafat: We Have to Work Quickly and Seriously; Chapter 23. The Clinton Peace Parameters; Chapter 24. A Crime Against the Palestinian People; Chapter 25. Barak in a Cage of Doves; Chapter 26. Taba: The Boss Doesn't want an Agreement; Chapter 27. Post Mortem; Part II - Defying the Logic of Conflict Resolution; Chapter 28. A Story of Promise and Deceit ( 2001- 2020 ); Chapter 29. The Occupation's Traits of Permanence; Chapter 30. The Insoluble Paradox of the Two-State Solution; Chapter 31. Ominous Denouements; Chapter 32. Exit Oslo, Enter Madrid: The Jordanian - Palestinian Option; Chapter 33. A Comparative Perspective; Epilogue; Bibliography; Maps:; Last Peace Offer at Camp David, July 2000; The Clinton Peace Parameters, December 2000; The Israeli Territorial Offer at Taba, 2001; The Palestinian Territorial Offer at Taba; The Israeli Territorial Proposal, Annapolis 2008; West Bank Jewish and Palestinian Localities; The Geneva Initiative Peace Plan, 2003; Sahul Arieli's Optimal Peace Map;

Shlomo Ben-Ami is an Oxford-trained historian with a long academic career who later served as Israel's ambassador in Madrid and then as foreign minister in Ehud Barak's government. He participated in the July 2000 Camp David peace summit with President Clinton, Prime Minister Ehud Barak, and Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. He subsequently led the Israeli negotiating team in all the phases of the peace process down to the last ditch attempt to save the peace at Taba in January 2001. Never before had Israelis and Palestinians been so close to reaching a peace accord. After leaving politics, Ben-Ami founded the Toledo Peace Centre in Spain. He is also the author of Scars of War, Wounds of Peace (Oxford).