Yasser Arafat has been dealing with deteriorating security in Gaza, calls for reform, even charges that he’s obstructing an investigation of the murder of three Americans. Now, “Missing Peace,” a new book by former US Mideast envoy Dennis Ross squarely blames Arafat for the failure of the Camp David II talks.
Ross, according to this book review, predicts that a final status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians will be similar to the deal Arafat turned down at Camp David II.
So why hasn’t this deal been struck? Ross blames Arafat. In the final process, at Camp David, the man who seized world attention for Palestinians appeared unable to adjust to anything but living in struggle. “Only one leader,” Ross writes, “was unable or unwilling to confront history and mythology: Yasser Arafat.”
Ross’ claim further undermines the claims of Camp David revisionists. Read more about that issue here and here.
