Israel blames Arafat for the collapse of peace efforts and says he ... Palestinian refugees — were left for "final status" talks. Arafat returned from a quarter century's exile in 1994 and ...

Rep. Joe Pitts (R-Pa.) is seeing his foreign policy credentials come under fire after calling for Middle East peace negotiations between deceased Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and former ...

Robert Malley, who was present at [the July 2000 peace talks at] Camp David, does not absolve Arafat, but he also assigns blame to [then-Israeli Prime Minister] Ehud Barak and to the United States.

In the Arab world, officials said Arafat’s death would mark the end of an era and would weigh heavily on any hopes for peace between the Palestinians and Israelis.

WASHINGTON, July 25 -- Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak emerged Tuesday from 14 grueling days of failed peacemaking efforts at Camp David. Looking grim and ...

Unfortunately, Yasser Arafat is no Anwar Sadat, the late Egyptian President whose presence was felt and missed when the Camp David peace talks collapsed last week. And not just unfortunately for ...

JERUSALEM, April 14 -- Secretary of State Colin L. Powell visited Yasser Arafat in his battered Ramallah headquarters today and later held new talks with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon but ...

But Arafat wasn’t doing the same with his people, Albright and her peace team worried. Barak wanted to move quickly to a summit, calculating that it would force Arafat to begin making hard choices.

* Re "For Arafat, It's Always Been All or Nothing," Commentary, July 26: Yasser Arafat meeting, talking, posturing or writing is the same as he has always been--unwilling to compromise.

THURMONT, Md. (AP) - The Middle East peace talks at Camp David collapsed Tuesday, but in conceding failure, President Clinton said Israeli and Palestinian negotiators "made real headway" toward a ...