Annapolis Conference Launches Talks Toward Israeli-Palestinian Treaty

At the US Naval Academy in Annapolis on 27 November 2007, President George W. Bush read a joint understanding in which Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas agreed to launch bilateral negotiations to conclude a peace treaty. They committed to make every effort to reach agreement before the end of 2008. The deadline passed without a treaty, adding another missed date to the long record of promised peace.