The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace

Dennis Ross

Macmillan + ORM, Jun 1, 2005 - History - 897 pages

"The definitive and gripping account of the sometimes exhilarating, often tortured twists and turns in the Middle East peace process, viewed from the front row by one of its major players."--Bill Clinton
The Missing Peace, published to great acclaim last year, is the most candid inside account of the Middle East peace process ever written. Dennis Ross, the chief Middle East peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, is that rare figure who is respected by all parties: Democrats and Republicans, Palestinians and Israelis, presidents and people on the street in Jerusalem, Ramallah, and Washington, D.C.
Ross recounts the peace process in detail from 1988 to the breakdown of talks in early 2001 that prompted the so-called second Intifada-and takes account of recent developments in a new afterword written for this edition. It's all here: Camp David, Oslo, Geneva, Egypt, and other summits; the assassination of Yitzak Rabin; the rise and fall of Benjamin Netanyahu; the very different characters and strategies of Rabin, Yasir Arafat, and Bill Clinton; and the first steps of the Palestinian Authority. For the first time, the backroom negotiations, the dramatic and often secretive nature of the process, and the reasons for its faltering are on display for all to see. The Missing Peace explains, as no other book has, why Middle East peace remains so elusive.

Contents

• PROLOGUE The End: 3
• CHAPTER 1 Why Israelis Arabs and Palestinians See the World the Way They Do: 15
• CHAPTER 2 The Road to Madrid: 46
• CHAPTER 3 Rabin Presidential Transition the Syrian Pocket and Oslo: 88
• CHAPTER 4 From Oslo to the Palestinian Authority: 122
• CHAPTER 5 The Evolution of the Syrian Talks: 137
• CHAPTER 6 King Hussein Fulfills His Grandfathers Legacy: 164
• CHAPTER 7 The Interim Agreement: 188
• CHAPTER 8 The Rabin Assassination Would Tragedy Produce Opportunity?: 209
• CHAPTER 9 Was Asad Up to It?: 216
• CHAPTER 10 Could the Peace Process Be Saved?: 246
• CHAPTER 11 Bibi Wins Will Peace Lose?: 256
• CHAPTER 12 The Endless Hebron Shuttle: 269
• CHAPTER 13 One Last Push to Settle Hebron: 293
• CHAPTER 14 From Breakthrough to Stalemate: 323
• CHAPTER 15 The 13 Percent Solution: 349
• CHAPTER 16 Prelude to Wye: 398
• CHAPTER 17 The Wye Summit: 415
• CHAPTER 18 Bibi Surrenders to the Right and Loses the Israeli Public: 460
• CHAPTER 19 Great Expectations for Barak: 495
• CHAPTER 20 Syrias My Priority: 509
• CHAPTER 21 Asads Surprise: 536
• CHAPTER 22 The Rise and Fall of the IsraeliSyrian Deal: 549
• CHAPTER 23 From Stalemate to Camp David: 591
• CHAPTER 24 The Camp David Summit: 650
• CHAPTER 25 The DenouementFrom Camp David to the Intifada to the Clinton Ideas: 712
• CHAPTER 26 Learning the Lessons of the Past and Applying Them to the Future: 759
• EPILOGUE: 781
• AFTERWORD TO THE PAPERBACK EDITION: 801
• APPENDIX: 809
• NOTES: 815
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS: 821
• INDEX: 825

About the author

Dennis Ross, Middle East ambassador and the chief peace negotiator in the presidential administrations of George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton, now heads the Washington Institute for Near East Policy. He lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Bibliographic information

• Title: The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
• Author: Dennis Ross
• Publisher: Macmillan + ORM, 2005
• ISBN: 0374708088, 9780374708085
• Length: 897 pages
• Subjects: History / Middle East / Israel & Palestine; Political Science / Peace