1999 May: Ehud Barak of the Labour Party is elected prime minister under the One Israel banner. 2000 July: The Camp David summit between Barak, and Yasser Arafat, the president of the Palestinian Authority, aimed at reaching a "final status" agreement, fails after Arafat refuses to accept a proposal drafted by the US and Israeli negotiators. September: Second initifada begins after Ariel Sharon, the Israeli opposition leader, visits the Temple Mount in Jerusalem. 2001 February 6: Sharon is elected the leader of the Likud party and refuses to continue negotiations with Arafat. June 1: A Hamas suicide bomber attacks a nightclub, killing 21 Israelis, mainly teenagers, and injuring more than 100. December: Sharon sends troops into Ramallah, shelling and surrounding the Palestinian Authority's West Bank headquarters; Arafat is unable to leave. 2002 March: Israeli army launches Operation Defensive Shield, the country's biggest military operation in the West Bank sinc...
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