Article: The United States and Middle East peace: the case for arbitrating Israeli-Palestinian disputes.

The Palestinian-Israeli Declaration of Principles agreement (DOP) of September 1993 shattered a long-standing axiom of Middle East diplomacy: that Arab-Israeli peace agreements can be achieved only through U.S. leadership. Although President Clinton hosted the signing ceremonies and watched benevolently as PLO leader Yasir Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin shook hands on the White House lawn, the U.S. role in the secret Palestinian-Israeli negotiations leading to the accord was insignificant. That surprising development has spurred reassessments, both in Washington and in Middle East capitals, of what the U.S. role in the Middle East peace process should be. ...

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