John Whitbeck is a Paris-based international lawyer who has practiced law in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s and again from 1999 through 2009 and who has served as a legal advisor to the Palestinian leadership.
He was in Madrid in 1991 to contribute ideas for the Palestinian speeches delivered at the conference that launched the "peace process", in Cairo in 1994 to advise the Palestinian negotiating team which negotiated the Gaza/Jericho withdrawal agreement and in a motel near Camp David in 2000, when the "peace process" effectively ended, to provide legal advice on any documents which emerged from the Arafat/Barak/Clinton summit. (None did.)
Since 1988, his articles in support of Middle East peace and Palestinian rights have been published more than 900 times in more than 90 different Arab, Israeli and international newspapers, magazines, journals and books, including more than 40 publications each of his "Two States, One Holy Land" framework for peace and his "Condominium Solution" for sharing Jerusalem in a context of peace and reconciliation.
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