Research Paper on:
Middle East Peace Talks

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peace, but today all one hears about are suicide bombings and devastation. Yet, it is really only during the last half of the twentieth century that there were significant problems.  There would be fighting between Israel and the people who call themselves Palestinians and there are further conflicts due to 911, an event that seemingly heated things up even more.  Historically, the conflict has been over land and Israels legitimacy. While there had occurred what was called the Six Day War, and numerous other conflicts, peace talks were not  really a part of the picture for some time. It is really only in the 1990s that there had been peace talks of any significance. Still, even before that  time, Jimmy Carter would at least try to effect peace in the Middle East, a seemingly daunting task. In 1978, President Jimmy Carter brought Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin  and Egyptian President Anwar Sadat to Camp David for the purpose of negotiating a peace deal between the two Middle Eastern countries ("Jimmy," 2002). It worked, at least for a  period of time. The thirteen-day summit would be known as the Camp David Accords, and is still considered to be the greatest accomplishment of Carters presidency (2002). The meeting did  result in the signing of the Framework for Peace in the Middle East as well as the Framework for the Conclusion of the Peace Treaty between Egypt and Israel by  the three leaders (2002). An important phase of the Middle East peace process had been launched at the Madrid conference that was initiated by the United States and  the former Soviet Union in 1991 ("The Middle," 1994). Former Secretary James A. Baker did in fact lay the groundwork for the conference in a series of trips to the