thank you for the references.  I assure you that i have read them. i even know some of the authors personally. nevertheless you claim, "The myth that the Palestinians were responsible for the failures of Camp David."  If this is a myth - to use your word - we must assume that the palestinians were not responsible.  then you said that barak "wrongly blamed" the palestinians.  if he wrongly blamed them then they should not have been blamed. these seem to me to be "an assertion to the contrary" of your above claim that the palestinians deserve a great deal of blame.  

 ross's and clintons book do (correctly) blame arafat, so citing them is not helping your point.  Aaron David Miller takes the line that the negotiations were doomed from the start and the conflict is basically insolvable.  that is a horrible position for someone who is pushing for peace to take.  

when it comes down to it, barak made a very very good offer, it wasn't perfect but it was very very good. how ever he acted throughout the negotiations does not change the fact that he made that offer. it was made even better at taba a few months later.  instead of making a counter offer arafat walked out.  there is no way around blaming him... he is the one who walked out.  

Israel has done enough wrong... settlers etc... to give us plenty to write about.  but if you want to convince reasonable israeli's to take steps toward peace you cannot start blaming israel for things it did not do wrong.  there are many on the left... new historians et al... that have decimated the peace movement in israel by taking positions that simply blame israel for everything.  it has made it very hard for those is israel who want to make peace, because the peace movement is often seen as anti-israel.  this of course is nonsense.  most of the peace movement, like yourself and your article, have israel's true interest in mind.  but those who are against peace can point to your depiction of camp david and then show the maps and say, "see... for the peaceniks israel can do no right."  and they will use this to dismiss the rest of you very well thought out argument.