President Clinton, along with Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, left, and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sign the West Bank accord during a ceremony in the East Room of the White House October 23, 1998. King Hussein of Jordan, second from left, looks on. After a long night of deal-making between Israelis and Palestinians at the Middle East peace talks in Queenstown, Maryland, Netanyahu and Arafat agreed on a breakthrough land-for-peace deal for the violence-scarred West Bank. (© AP Images)
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