In December 2024, Bill Clinton spoke with a candour that history affords. Reflecting on Camp David in 2000, he lamented that ‘you walk away from these once in a lifetime peace opportunities, and you can’t complain twenty-five years later when the doors weren’t all still open, and all the possibilities weren’t still there. You can’t do it.’ His warning was not simply about past missteps but about the nature of political time. Opportunities do not remain static. They decay, they harden, they shrink. To reject an offer once is to ensure that the next will be less generous, more conditional, and more difficult to secure.
It was rejected outright. The Palestinian leadership dismissed it, the factions decried it, and the street treated it as betrayal
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