Israel/Palestine
In reply to the discussion: Bill Clinton: 'I killed myself to give the Palestinians a state' [View all]oberliner
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Israel did not accept the Clinton Parameters "with 20 pages of objections". Go to the source material that Wikipedia used to construct this paragraph. It comes from an interview with Ehud Barak conducted by Ari Shavit of Ha'aretz in September of 2002.
If you actually read the interview (which I'm assuming you haven't), you will note that Barak says that he accepted the parameters when they were proposed by Clinton, and that Arafat did not. The 20-page document was sent later, after Arafat had rejected the parameters as a basis for negotiation.
"The true story of Camp David was that for the first time in the history of the conflict the American president put on the table a proposal, based on UN Security Council resolutions 242 and 338, very close to the Palestinian demands, and Arafat refused even to accept it as a basis for negotiations, walked out of the room, and deliberately turned to terrorism."