Report on Israeli Settlement in the Occupied Territories

As Annapolis, Maryland prepares to host U.S. President George W. Bush’s belated and undefined effort at Israeli‑Palestinian peace‑making, Camp David, Maryland, the site of President Bill Clinton’s disasterous Israeli‑Palestinian summit, stands as a cautionary symbol of the costs of failure.

Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice’s hope that Israelis and Palestinians should move beyond a “peace process” and agree on a “political horizon” reflects a lesson about the failure of previous peace efforts.