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The Truth About Camp David

The Untold Story About the Collapse of the Middle East Peace Process



Clayton E. Swisher
September 2004     ISBN: 1560256230

The collapse of both sets of Arab-Israeli negotiations in 2000 led not only to recrimination and bloodshed, with the outbreak of the second intifada, but to the creation of a new myth. Syrian and Palestinian intransigence was blamed for the current disastrous state of affairs, as both parties rejected a "generous" peace offering from the Israelis that would have brought peace to the region.

The Truth About Camp David shatters that myth. Based on the riveting, eyewitness accounts of more than forty direct participants, some speaking publicly for the very first time, former federal investigator-turned-investigative journalist Clayton E. Swisher provides a compelling counternarrative to the commonly accepted history.


What readers are saying

"In my opinion, the two best books about what went wrong at Camp David are The Truth About Camp David [and former Israeli Foreign Minister's Shlomo Ben Ami's Scars of War, Scars of Peace]. (Clayton Swisher) was an eyewitness at the summit and simply blows out of the water the idea that the fault lies exclusively with Arafat. It was a tripartite failure with Israel and the Americans also responsible."
—M.J. Rosenberg, Director of Policy Analysis for the Israel Policy Forum

"The truth of things...becomes crystal clear in a remarkable book by a young graduate student who, with no vested interest in any particular version of the story, interviewed most of the principals involved in the peace process, as well as several lower-ranking functionaries, and produced an account of U.S. policymaking that is strikingly honest and revealing. In The Truth About Camp David, Clayton E. Swisher demonstrates that asking the right questions—something no one in the media has yet attempted to do—can unearth the real story beneath the self-interested distortions of those involved and the hype put out by a media completely locked in to the Israeli perspective."
—Kathleen Christison, former CIA political analyst, author of Perceptions of Palestine and The Wound of Dispossession

About the Authors

Clayton E. Swisher, a former Marine reservist and federal criminal investigator, was educated as the University of Pittsburgh, Georgetown University. Swisher is the director of programs at the Middle East Institute.



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