When either of these two scenarios is lacking, American initiatives are stillborn. This happened to Clinton at Camp David in 2000, when he failed to bring Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat to an agreement, and to Bush’s Road Map in 2003, when both sides agreed in principle to its general guidelines, but did little to implement them.
当这两个背景条件中的任何一个缺乏时，美国的倡议就会胎死腹中。在2000年，当克林顿在戴维营没能使以色列总理埃胡德·巴拉克和巴勒斯坦解放组织主席亚瑟·阿拉法特达成协议时，就发生了这样的情况；同样，在2003年，在布什的路线图计划中，当双方原则上同意它的总体指导方针，但很少执行它们的时候，也发生了同样的情况。