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1. Camp David Accords -- Meetings
   A formal settlement at Camp David would require that one side give the other some formal, explicit acknowledgement of claims to the land. To do so, each side would have to modify its own understanding of history. Israelis would have to treat Palestinians as other than interlopers, with legitimate rights. Palestinians would have to formally accept that Israelis have real rights, too. To do this formally would require a wrenching redefinition of both Zionism and Palestinian nationalism.
2. Camp David Accords -- Agreements
   The Camp David Accords were signed by Egyptian President Anwar El Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin on September 17, 1978, following twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David. The two agreements were signed at the White House, and were witnessed by United States President Jimmy Carter. The Accords led directly to the 1979 Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty.
3. Camp David Accords -- Peace
   The Camp David Accords and the Egyptian-Israeli Peace Treaty were denounced and condemned by the Palestinians and by all Arab States with the exception of Somalia, Sudan, and Oman. They were ... condemned by 95 states at the conference of the Non-Aligned Nations at Havana in September 1979 as being a sell-out by Egypt of Palestinian rights. All the Arab states-- except Somalia, Sudan, and Oman-- severed diplomatic relations with Egypt and excluded it from the League of Arab States whose offices were removed from Cairo to Tunis. The Camp David Accords were also denounced.
4. Camp David Accords
   Within the Middle East, the Camp David Accords are the subject of great debate. Many in the Arab world, and even some in Israel, regard them with hostility. Others, especially in the United States, see in the Camp David formula the only hope for successful resolution of the Arab-Israeli conflict and lavish praise on the accords. But the broad impact of the accords on the Middle East and on the prospects for peace has never been fully analyzed by Middle Eastern or American specialist. In this new work, published to mark the tenth anniversary of the accords, offers the comprehensive assessment necessary to discuss the next steps in the Middle East peace process.
5. Jimmy Carter -- Camp David
   Ford (at right) and Jimmy Carter debateDemocratic nominee and former Georgia governor Jimmy Carter campaigned as an outsider and reformer; he gained support from voters dismayed by the Watergate scandal. Carter led consistently in the polls, and Ford was never able to shake voter dissatisfaction following Watergate and the Nixon pardon.
6. Camp David Accords -- President Carter
   At Camp David, Carter showed a strategic sense, flexibility and sensitivity in his dealings with others that were not always evident in his approach to foreign policy. Shifting from the mediator role he first envisaged for himself, he became the chief diplomat in two simultaneous but in some ways separate U.S. negotiations with Israel and Egypt. He knew when to play the "U.S. relations" card, suggesting to both Sadat and the members of the Israeli team, as warranted, that should their actions blow up the conference, their relations with the U.S. would be imperiled. Three times he personally intervened, using insight he had garnered from a CIA report on the personalities of Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to keep them from leaving the conference.
7. Camp David Accords -- United States
   The Camp David Accords are in flat contradiction to UN resolutions. In particular, Resolution 181 of 1947 which called for the establishment of a Palestinian State; Resolution 194 of 1948 which called for the repatriation of the refugees, and numerous other resolutions which affirmed the national and inalienable rights of the Palestinians.
8. Camp David Accords -- White House
   Located 70 miles from the White House in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, Camp David was established in 1942 as a place for the President to relax and entertain. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt wanted to escape the summer heat of Washington, D.C., and the higher altitude of the Camp provided cool breezes and good security. President Roosevelt called the Camp "Shangri-La" after the mountain kingdom in James Hilton's book Lost Horizon. It was renamed Camp David in 1953 by President Eisenhower in honor of his grandson.
9. Camp David Accords -- Middle East
   The Camp David accords on autonomy were formulated and agreed upon without Palestinian input. Moreover, today's situation in terms of political thinking concerning the region differs from that of 1978. Palestinian aspirations remain the national goal of freedom and independence, which the concepts "self-rule" and "autonomy" do not satisfy: to equate autonomy with national authority is deceptive. Although the PLO's position in 1978 on the Camp David agreement represented, at the time, a consensus of Palestinian opinion, there are today new interpretations of the Accords, and there is no longer a consensus. During the seminar the following reference materials were distributed: Sobel, Lester A. (ed.) Peacemaking in the Middle East; Joseph Weiler Israel and the Creation of a Palestinian State; Ann Mosely Lesch and Mark Tessler Israel, Egypt and the Palestinians: From Camp David to Intifada; Mayer Gabay Legal Aspects of the Camp David Framework for Peace in Relation to the Autonomy Proposals; Yoram Dinstein (ed.) Models of Autonomy; Ruth Lapidoth The Camp David Process and the New U.S. Plan for the Middle East: A Legal Analysis; Moshe Drori Autonomy in Judea, Samaria and Gaza: Legal Aspects of Its Implementation; Daniel J. Elazar Autonomy, Some Considerations.
10. Camp David Accords -- West Bank
    After twelve days of secret negotiations at Camp David, the Israeli-Egyptian negotiations were concluded by the signing at the White House of two agreements. The first dealt with the future of the Sinai and peace between Israel and Egypt, to be concluded within three months. The second was a framework agreement establishing a format for the conduct of negotiations for the establishment of an autonomy regime in the West Bank and Gaza. The Israel-Egypt agreement clearly defined the future relations between the two countries, all aspects of withdrawal from the Sinai, military arrangements in the peninsula such as demilitarization and limitations, as well as the supervision mechanism. The framework agreement regarding the future of Judea, Samaria and Gaza was less clear and was later interpreted differently by Israel, Egypt, and the US. President Carter witnessed the accords which were signed by Egyptian President Sadat and Israeli Prime Minister Begin.

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