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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (C) into the Laurel cabin on the grounds of Camp David as U.S. President Bill Clinton watches during peace talks, July 11. Arafat and Barak were insisting that the other proceed through the door first. Camp David is the venue where Egypt and Israel made peace in September 1978, and the Laurel cabin was the site of many of the meetings.
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Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak (R) jokingly pushes Palestinian President Yasser Arafat (C) into the Laurel cabin on the grounds of Camp David as U.S. President Bill Clinton watches during peace talks, July 11. Arafat and Barak were insisting that the other proceed through the door first. Camp David is the venue where Egypt and Israel made peace in September 1978, and the Laurel cabin was the site of many of the meetings.
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Senior Israeli and Palestinian negotiators (L to R) Yasser Abed Rabbo, Yossi Beilin, Nabil Shaath, Mohammed Dahlan, Yossi Sarid, Hassan Asfour, and Gilead Sher attend a joint press briefing in the Egyptian resort town of Taba to January 27, 2001. After a week of intensive negotiations, Israeli and Palestinian teams failed to make a breakthrough in peace talks, but said negotiations in the future looked promising
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Senior Israeli and Palestinian negotiators (L to R) Yasser Abed Rabbo, Yossi Beilin, Nabil Shaath, Mohammed Dahlan, Yossi Sarid, Hassan Asfour, and Gilead Sher attend a joint press briefing in the Egyptian resort town of Taba to January 27, 2001. After a week of intensive negotiations, Israeli and Palestinian teams failed to make a breakthrough in peace talks, but said negotiations in the future looked promising.
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Jordan's King Abdullah (R) greets Saudi Arabia's foreign minister Prince Saud al-Faisal at the Royal Palace in Amman on July 10, 2002. King Abdullah met with Saud al-Faisal on Wednesday, just days ahead of planned talks in New York between key Arab foreign ministers and the "quartet" of Middle East peace brokers.
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Russian President Vladimir Putin invites Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon (L) to take seat at their meeting in Moscow's Kremlin November 3, 2003. Sharon arrived in the Russian capital on Sunday planning to ask Russia to stop a U.N. Security Council vote on the "road map" peace plan
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United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan (C) meets with Geneva Accord supporters Yossi Beilin (R) and Yasser Abed Rabbo, at U.N. headquarters in New York, December 5, 2003
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The conflict has gone on for over a hundred years and it is 44 years since the Middle East war of June 1967, over this time there have been many peace plans and many negotiations. If some of these have been successful, including those between Egypt and Israel and Israel and Jordan, a settlement has still not been reached in the core conflict. Looking back at a history of negotiations, the results derived from the different signed treaties are more confusing than encouraging. With the recent appeal of US president Barrack Obama to find a final solution to the conflict in the hope of avoiding any more bloodshed, let us look at the peace talks that have marked the history of this conflict.