Discuss the successes and failures of the Camp David Accords.

Candidates are required to offer a considered and balanced review of the successes and failures of the Camp David Accords. Among the successes of the Accords, candidates may refer to the normalization of relations between Egypt and Israel, the exchange of ambassadors, the launch of regular airline flights, the revocation of the Egyptian boycott to trade, and the Egyptian provision of oil to Israel. For Israel, the most evident benefit was a peaceful border, and the decrease in its levels of alert. Regarding the failures, candidates may refer to the controversy over settlements in frontier lands, and the failure of the autonomy talks. The Israeli settler movement was opposed to the accords and the Palestinian problem became an inconclusive matter. Besides, the accords did not prevent the rising of Islamic extremist groups in Egypt dissatisfied with the decision to make peace with Israel, and isolated Egypt from the rest of Arab states.

The question on the successes and failures of the Camp David Accords proved challenging to many students. Students were allowed to include material from the 1978 meetings and the 2000 meetings. The difficulty was that too few candidates focused on the successes and failures but instead spent too much time on the process of negotiations or the reasons for conflict.