Without such international ratification, a Camp David agreement will go precisely the way of the Oslo agreement of 1993.
CENTERFORSECURITYPOLICY: Camp David: Finality Guaranteed by the world
Israeli and Egyptian authorities coordinated to allow the helicopter gunships and heavy machinery into the demilitarized zone in accord with the Camp David agreement signed in 1979.
In 1977 the Camp David Agreement with then Egyptian president Anwar Sadat in which Israel surrendered the strategically invaluable Sinai for a peace treaty seemed like a reasonable gamble.
Aides say Clinton wants to work to the last possible minute in hopes of bridging the differences, and if he fails, he wants to work a few minutes more urging the parties not to let the peace process collapse if they leave Camp David without an agreement.
Although disparities among them are often emphasized, the 1974 Israeli- Syrian withdrawal agreement, the 1978 Camp David Accords, the Reagan statement of 1982, the 1993 Oslo Agreement, the treaty between Israel and Jordan in 1994, the Arab peace proposal of 2002, the 2003 Geneva Initiative, and the International Quartet's Roadmap all contain key common elements that can be consolidated if pursued in good faith.
Resolution 242 and as promised in the Camp David Accords and the Oslo Agreement and prescribed in the Roadmap of the International Quartet.
If there were no agreement at Camp David, his aides hint that he would invite the Likud leader, Ariel Sharon, to join him in a government of national unity and jointly face the prospect of violent confrontation with the Palestinians.
If Mr Barak can bring home the draft peace agreement that eluded him and Yasser Arafat at Camp David, or even a less ambitious accord, providing Palestinian statehood but leaving the issues of Jerusalem and the refugees for further negotiation, the election would become, in effect, the referendum on peace that he promised.
He added that Hamas would modify its rejection of Israel if there is a negotiated agreement that Palestinians can approve (as specified in the Camp David Accords).
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