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BBC: History of failed peace talks in the Middle East

In the 40 years since the Middle East war of June 1967, there have been many peace plans and many negotiations.

Under Carter, the US oversaw the first Arab-Israeli peace treaty

Some of these have been successful, including those between Egypt and Israel and Israel and Jordan, but a settlement has still not been reached in the core conflict, the dispute between the Israelis and Palestinians.

The BBC News website is publishing a series of articles about the attempts to achieve peace and the main obstacles. To start the series, Paul Reynolds looks at the main peace proposals since 1967 and what happened to them....
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