Daniel Seidemann, a lawyer and Jerusalem civic activist, says the route of the wall is intended to obliterate the memory of Bill Clinton's proposal, accepted at the time of Camp David in 2000 by Israel's then prime minister, Ehud Barak, that Jerusalem's Jewish suburbs be part of Israel, and its Palestinian suburbs become part of a Palestinian state.
This must have much to do with why Yasser Arafat rejected Ehud Barak's famous Camp David offer of 2000 in which Israel offered more than 90% of what the Palestinians had demanded.
And Don, what more do we know about today's discussions at Camp David?
It would be the first visit to Tehran by an Egyptian leader since Iran's Islamic revolution and Egypt's signing of the Camp David peace treaty with Israel in 1979.
The U.S.-brokered Camp David accords, signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat in 1978, ended a generation of hostilities between the two nations and forged a relationship that has endured, in part, because of the stability of the Mubarak regime -- which came to power after Sadat was assassinated in 1981 -- and in spite of deep animus among rank-and-file Egyptians toward Israel.
This year's summit took place at Camp David in the US state of Maryland.
The culmination of Clinton's campaign was the failed Camp David summit in July 2000.
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The most promising moment of all came at the beginning of this decade, with Mr Clinton's near-miss at Camp David.
Why did President Clinton call today's hasty high-risk Camp David summit?
There's only enough room at Camp David, nestled amid the Maryland mountains, for a cabin for every leader, and they'll meet around a dining room table.
By evening, Bush was to be at the Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland's Catoctin Mountains for the remainder of the weekend.
One of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces' first announcements was that it would honour Egypt's international obligations, presumably including Camp David.
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Mr Bush and Britain's Tony Blair will meet at Camp David on January 31st to discuss not only the timing of any possible military action, but also whether to try first for another Security Council resolution to authorise it, or to proceed without one.
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Sabahy has been critical of Egypt's relationship with Israel, even though he said he's not going to take on the Camp David peace treaty between the countries.
As the 39th U.S. president, Carter pursued the Camp David Accords and the Panama Canal treaties, but his last year in power was dominated by the Iran hostage crisis.
This obligation was reconfirmed by Israel's leaders in agreements negotiated in 1978 at Camp David and in 1993 at Oslo, for which they received the Nobel Peace Prize, and both of these commitments were officially ratified by the Israeli government.
And two days after that, Mr Bush will host his closest ally, Britain's prime minister, Tony Blair, at his Camp David retreat.
Still, it's unlikely now that the process that collapsed at Camp David will be revived before the end of next year, if not later.
This, above all else, has dictated the timing of the crucial summit between Mr Clinton, Mr Arafat and Israel's current prime minister, Ehud Barak, at Camp David, giving it sudden now-or-never urgency.
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Deployment of U.S. "monitors" on the Golan Heights: The parties refuse to disclose the details of the proposed deployment, simply noting that such an arrangement has a precedent in the U.S. monitors posted in the Sinai after the Camp David accords between Israel and Syria.
Also, we know a while back the vice president was working out at Camp David because of security concerns (the U.S. Secret Service thought it best the two men not be in the same place), but now Mr. Cheney is definitely working from his White House office.
Lula has just returned from talks at Camp David with George Bush, a welcome recognition of Brazil's growing international clout.
President Bush said history called the U.S. to action in Afghanistan as he praised Afghan President Hamid Karzai's leadership Monday at the conclusion of a two-day meeting at Camp David.
The Camp David accords and the 1979 peace treaty cemented a rapprochement between the U.S. and Egypt that began in the mid-1970s as the country moved out of the Soviet orbit.
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