Missing Peace

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 ClintonThe 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.