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The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle Ea

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 The Truth About Camp David: The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process


基本信息·出版社:Nation Books
·页码:455 页
·出版日期:2004年09月
·ISBN:1560256230
·International Standard Book Number:1560256230
·条形码:9781560256236
·EAN:9781560256236
·装帧:平装
·正文语种:英语
·丛书名:Nation Books

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The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 not only led to recrimination and bloodshed, and the outbreak of the second Intifada, but to the creation of a new myth. Popular opinion blamed Syrian and Palestinian intransigence for the disastrous state of affairs, with politicians and their loyal pundits accusing the Arabs of rejecting a "generous" peace offer from Israel that would have brought lasting peace to the region.

The Truth About Camp David, by Clayton E. Swisher shatters that myth.

Based on the riveting, eyewitness accounts of more than 40 direct participants involved in the latest rounds of Arab-Israeli negotiations, including the Camp David 2000 summit, former federal investigator-turned-investigative journalist Clayton E. Swisher provides a compelling counter-narrative to the commonly accepted history. Swisher traces the source of the breakdown to President Clinton?s post-impeachment hardships and desire to repair his legacy, his hopeful alliance with Ehud Barak (and campaign to oust Netanyahu), and the collective demurral of his advisors to the supposed negotiating wisdom of an Israeli Prime Minister they knowingly followed into a pattern doomed to failure. Based on the perspectives of negotiators now speaking publicly for the first time, The Truth About Camp David invites the reader into new perspectives detailing the tragic inner workings of the Clinton Administration?s negotiating mayhem, their eleventh hour blunders and miscalculations, and their concluding decision to end the Oslo process with blame and disengagement.

The Truth About Camp David will reframe what may prove to be one of the greatest diplomatic failures in American history. It is not only a fascinating historical look at Middle East politics on the brink of disaster, but a revelatory portrait of how all-too-human American political considerations helped facilitate the present crisis.
作者简介 CLAYTON E. SWISHER, a former marine reservist and federal criminal investigator, was educated at the University of Pittsburgh and Georgetown University, and is currently studying Law & Economics part-time at George Mason University. Swisher works as an associate for a Middle East consulting firm in Washington, D.C. where he resides.
媒体推荐 "...A fascinating book, an invasive, incisive and merciless probe of the guts of the Clinton administration." -- Akiva Eldar,

"A carefully researched account that challenges conventional interpretations of the Camp David summit of 2000." -- William B. Quandt, Professor of Politics, University of Virginia, author of Peace Process

"Any future mediator will have to read this account before the start of any final-status negotiations." -- Charles Enderlin, author of Shattered Dreams and Jerusalem Bureau chief of France 2 television

"Challenging the pieties and political correctness of American discourse, Swisher makes a convincing case." -- L. Carl Brown, Foreign Affairs, September/October 2005

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