After several days of intense wrangling, Israeli and Palestinian officials have announced that they have cleared the last major obstacle in the way of signing a revised Wye River peace accord and resuming formal peace negotiations. The dispute was over the number of Palestinian prisoners to be released. Palestinian negotiators demanded the release of some 400 prisoners, who are regarded as heroes...

Written by Tim Youngs and recently published by the UK House of Commons Library, this research paper offer a succinct and very useful account of the Arab-Israeli conflict and peace process from 2000 through January 2001. The paper continues the negotiations narrative from the summer of 2000 through January of 2001. It explores the outstanding issues at the Camp David summit, the outbreak of...