Wye Memorandum | Arab-Israeli agreement | Britannica (original) (raw)

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• history of Israel
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    In Israel: The Wye River Memorandum
    The breakdown of direct Israeli-Palestinian negotiation at high levels led the United States to intervene again in early 1998 to end the stalemate. Both sides met in rural Maryland in October, and after intensive negotiations that included President Clinton’s active participation produced…
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• Arafat
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    In Yasser Arafat: From agreement to the second intifada of Yasser Arafat
    …the two leaders at the Wye Plantation in eastern Maryland in 1998. Negotiations were revived after the election of Israel Labour Party leader Ehud Barak as prime minister in 1999, but in a very tense context. The unabated continuation of settlement activity—some 100,000 more settlers arrived in the West Bank…
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• Netanyahu
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    In Benjamin Netanyahu: First term as prime minister (1996–99)
    …talks that resulted in the Wye Memorandum, the terms of which included placing as much as 40 percent of the West Bank under Palestinian control. The agreement was opposed by right-wing groups in Israel, and several factions in Netanyahu’s government coalition quit. In 1998 the Knesset dissolved the government, and…
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