By: Herb Keinon – The Jerusalem Post; jpost.com
But historic events are not only successes; failures can also be historic in marking a turning point, a watershed moment. And Camp David was just that.
There is no harm in trying, goes a well-worn axiom.
Except that often times there is. Take, for example, the July 2000 Camp David summit.
It was 20 years ago this week that US president Bill Clinton welcomed prime minister Ehud Barak and Palestinian Authority president Yasser Arafat to the storied Camp David compound in the Maryland woods to try and solve the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
No further proof of the failure of that summit is needed than noticing that the 20th anniversary of the convening on July 11, 2000, of this two-week summit passed without many people taking note. Hardly an academic conference on the matter was held, even via Zoom; few television or radio programs were devoted to the anniversary and the sparse coverage in the print media for the most part sufficed with interviews with some of the participants.
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/20-years-since-camp-david-summit-there-was-harm-in-trying-635318