"He just kept saying 'no' to every offer, never making any counterproposals of his own," Barak told Israeli historian Benny Morris. Arafat, Barak said, believed Israel "has no right to exist, and he seeks its demise." This became the prevailing view in the United States and Israel: that in rejecting Israel's "generous" offers, the PLO chairman alone was to blame for the failure at Camp David. Many other observers, including diplomats present at Camp David, believe the reasons for the summit's failure were far more complex and were partly the result of American favoritism toward the Israeli
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