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US efforts to reach a peace settlement between Arabs and Zionists in general, and between Palestinians and Zionists in particular, began after the Arab-Israeli regime war of September 1973.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1978: Egyptian president Anwar Sadat and Zionist Prime Minister Menachem Begin sign the Camp David Agreement in the presence of US president Jimmy Carter. It provides for diplomatic recognition of Zionist regime by Egypt and the return of the Sinai Peninsula, seized by Zionist regime from Egypt in 1967.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1988: After the Palestinian National Council votes to implicitly recognize the Zionist regime, US president Ronald Reagan agrees to open contacts with the Palestinians.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1989: Reagan's successor, George Bush senior, starts working to open lines of communication between Zionist regime and the Arab world.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1991: In the aftermath of the first Persian Gulf War against Saddam Hussein's Iraq, the United States and the Soviet Union convene a Middle East 'peace' conference in Madrid. The Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO) takes part, along with Zionist regime and representatives of several Arab states.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1993: Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Zionist premier Yitzhak Rabin sign the Oslo Accords at Camp David in the United States, in the presence of US president Bill Clinton. The agreement, providing for a transitory phase towards Palestinian autonomy, has been mediated by the Norwegians.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1994: US mediation leads to the signing of a peace treaty between Zionist regime and Jordan, from which Zionist regime had seized the West Bank of the River Jordan in 1967.<\/div>\r\n
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- 1998: At a summit in Wye Plantation, Maryland, Zionist regime's Premier Benjamin Netanyahu and Arafat sign a new agreement, calling for a further Israeli withdrawal from occupied lands in the West Bank.<\/div>\r\n
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- 2000: Clinton brings together Arafat and the new Zionist' prime minister, Ehud Barak, at Camp David. But the talks fail.<\/div>\r\n
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- 2001: Only weeks before George W. Bush takes over the presidency, Clinton brings together the two sides at Taba in Egypt. The eighth and final meeting convened by Clinton also ends in failure, however.<\/div>\r\n
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- 2002: President George W. Bush says he is in favor of the creation of a Palestinian State, but as he refuses to deal with Arafat, there is no progress.<\/div>\r\n
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- 2003: Bush publishes the "roadmap" peace plan, drawn up along with Russia, the European Union and the United Nations. However the attention of the United States is focused mainly on its wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.<\/div>\r\n
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- Nov 2007: Bush convenes peace talks in Annapolis, Maryland. <\/div>\r\n
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- Jan 2008: Bush visits Middle East<\/div>","content_source":null,"content_url":null,"content_columns":"0","content_date_start":"2008-01-09 13:51:00","content_date_finish":"2008-01-09 13:51:00","content_date_register":"2008-01-09 13:51:00","content_date_last_edit":"0000-00-00 00:00:00","content_show_img":"1","content_show_details":"1","content_show_related_img":"1","content_show_slider":"1","content_show_title_slider":"1","content_comment":"0","content_score":"0","content_recorded":"0","content_confirmed":"1","content_status":"1","content_kind":"0","old_id":"100745","tag_id":null,"tag_word":null,"tag_service":null,"tag_total":null,"tag_soundex":null,"attach_token":null,"attach_date_register":null,"attach_id":null,"attach_file_ext":null,"attach_file_header":null,"attach_img_type":null,"attach_img_width":null,"attach_img_height":null,"attach_file_media":null,"attach_show_watermark":null,"score_average":null,"score_count":null,"score_date_last":null,"visit_count":"127","visit_date_last":"2025-05-11 04:55:25","attach_title":null,"node_title":"Latest news","ot_node_left_right":"[{\"node_id\":144, \"left\":49, \"right\":50}]"}]]