Making Peace With The Plo

David Makovsky is the diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post and a special correspondent for U.S. News and World Report. He was the 1994 corecipient of the National Press Club's Edwin M. Hood Award for Diplomatic Correspondence.

• Foreword -- Prologue -- The Unforeseen Peace Process -- Drafting the Declaration of Principles -- Upgrading the Oslo Talks -- Brinkmanship -- The Israeli Political Environment -- International and Regional Changes -- Rabin’s Personal Road to Oslo -- The Lessons of Oslo -- Epilogue -- Appendixes -- Security Council Resolution 242 -- The Camp David Accords -- The Reagan Peage Initiative -- Reagan’s Talking Points 2 -- The London Agreement 3 -- The Shultz Initiative 4 -- Israeli Government Peace Initiative 5 -- U.S.-Soviet Letter of Invitation to the Madrid Peace Conference -- Israeli Labor Party Platform -- U.S. Proposal for Israeli-Palestinian Statement 6 -- Rabin’s Letter to Arafat Recognizing the Plo -- Arafat’s Letter to Rabin Recognizing Israel’s Right to Exist in Peace -- Arafat’s Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Intifada -- The Israel-Plo Declaration of Principles -- Excerpts from Speeches at the Secret Oslo Signing Ceremony -- Rabin’s Speech at the Dop Signing Ceremony -- Arafat’s Speech at the Dop Signing Ceremony -- Clinton’s Speech at Dop Signing Ceremony -- Peres’ Letter to Norwegian Foreign Minister Johan Jorgen Holst on the Status of Jerusalem -- Senior Israeli Officials who Report Directly to Rabin -- Chronology -- About the Book and Author