The wire service Knight Ridder, through a recent report, covered the history of the West Bank:
In 1987, Palestinian frustration…sparked the first intifada…. The conflict…came to an end with the 1993 Oslo Accords, a historic agreement that gave rise to a new Palestinian government and the return of Yasser Arafat to the region.
Arafat’s return marked the beginning of a slow process of transferring limited control of the West Bank and Gaza Strip to the fledgling Palestinian government.
Hopes for a new era of peace soon crumbled, however, and fueled a second intifada in 2000, which proved to be even more deadly than the first uprising, taking more than 5,000 lives.
Was “hopes for a new era of peace” a veiled reference to the Camp David summit in July 2000? Wouldn’t it be relevant to include why those hopes crumbled?
