From Camp David to Cairo: The Peace Process in West Asia ∗

For a discussion on US mediatory role leading to the Camp David Accords, see Carter Jimmy ; Keeping Faith: Memoirs of a President, Bantam Books, New York and London, 1983, pp. 269–404; Brzezinski Zbigniew ; Power and Principle: Memoirs of a National Security Adviser, Farrar. Straus and Giroux, N. York. 1983; Vance Cyrus ; Hard Choice: Critical years in America’s Foreign Policy Simon & Schuster, New York. 1983, especially, Chaps. 9 & 10; Banerji Arun Kumar ; “West Asia and the USA: The Peace Process Since the Camp David”, The Round Table London, Jan. 1986.

The point has been developed in Banerji Arun Kumar ; “US Policy in Lebanon”. Foreign Affairs Report, New Delhi. Sept.-Oct., 1984; Schiff Ze’ev ; “The. Green Light”. Foreign Policy, New York, Spring. 1983.

For details, see. Banerji Arun Kumar ; op. cit., f. n. 2.

For further discussions, Saunders Harold ; The Other Walls: The Arab-Israeli Peace Process In a Global Context, Affiliated East West Press. New Delhi. 1992, pp. XXIII.

Saunders Harold H. ; op. cit. pp. XXIV–XXV.

Mansour Camille ; “The Palestinian-Israeli Peace Negotiations: An Overview and an Assessment”. Journal of Palestine Studies, Berkeley, Spring 1993, p. 7.

Muslih Muhammad ; “The Shift in Palestinian Thinking”, Current History, Philadelphia. January. 1992.

The point has been developed in Mansour Camille . op. cit.

Mansour Camille ; op. cit.

See, The Statesman , 11 Sept. 1993, The Sunday Statesman , 12 Sept. 1993, & The Statesman , 13 Sept. 1993.

The Statesman , 11 Sept. 1993.

For an account of US mediatory role at Campt David. See. Carter Jimmy ; op.cit. f.n.,1. and Brzezinski Zbigniew ; op. cit.

For details about the terms of the agreement, The Statesman , 5 May, 1994.

These were; The Rabin-Arafat meeting in Cairo on Dec. 12, 1993, which failed as Israel refussed to stick to the December 13 deadline for the withdrawal of troops from Jericho; the Arafat Peres meeting in Oslo on 22 Jan. 1994; the Arafat-Peres talks in Davos on 22 January, which led to the signing of an agreement on the details of partial autonomy; Arafat-Peres talks in Bucharest on 19 April. 1994 and finally, the mediatory role played by Mubarak in narrowing the differences between the PLO and Israel. See The Statesman , 5 May, 1994.

For example, on the occasion of the signing of the Cairo Agreement, Palestinian refugees in Lebanon raised black flags of mourning to protest against the signing of the accord, while in Damascus Mr. Saeed Mousa. leader of the radical group within the Fatah, called Arafat a traitor, see. The Statesman , 5 May, 1994.

See, Eban Abba : “Cairo accord: a truimph of reciprocal self-interest”. The Times, London, reprinted in The Statesman , 5 May. 1994.